Exemptions

Silverwood Land 2015 Limited Partnership (scheme) is a forestry scheme that has been winding up for several years. The scheme has some remaining real estate assets that it seeks to sell. The scheme is the subject of the Financial Markets Conduct (Silverwood Land 2015 Limited Partnership) Exemption Notice 2021, which is revoked on the close of 31 March 2024.

The Notice permits CBA to report only in relation to certain group members (CBA Group) and exempts CBA from reporting in relation to other group members (being ASB Holdings Limited and ASB Bank Limited and its subsidiaries) that are required otherwise to form part of the climate statements to be prepared for CBA’s New Zealand business under section 461ZB(3)(a) of the Act. With the exception of ASB Holdings Limited, the subsidiaries excluded from the CBA Group climate statements will be included in other climate statements pursuant to section 461ZA of the Act.

The Notice permits PPNZ and PPIL to prepare consolidated group climate statements for the purposes of Part 7A of Act instead of each of PPNZ and PPIL having to prepare individual group climate statements.

The Financial Markets Conduct (Climate Statements – Stride Property Group) Exemption Notice 2023 (Notice) exempts Stride Investment Management Limited (SIML) and Stride Property Limited (SPL), which are part of the stapled group, comprising SIML, SPL and subsidiaries of SPL (Stride Property Group or SPG) from certain provisions of Part 7A of the Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013 (Act).

This exemption notice facilitates offers of financial products of the same class as ASX-quoted financial products on an equivalent basis to the same class exclusion in Schedule 1 of the Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013.

The Notice exempts i-Select Limited (i-Select) as manager of the i-Select Superannuation Scheme (the self-select scheme) from certain provisions of the FMC Act, the FMC Regulations, and the Financial Markets Conduct (Fees) Regulations 2014.