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ASIC (Supervisory Cost Recovery Levy—Regulatory Costs) Instrument 2021/0938
I, Richard Goldman, delegate of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, make the following legislative instrument.
Date 15 November 2021
Richard Goldman
Contents
Part 1—Preliminary
1 Name of legislative instrument
2 Commencement and date of effect
3 Authority
4 Definitions
Part 2—Determination
5 Applicable financial year
6 ASIC's regulatory costs
7 Attribution of ASIC's regulatory costs to each sub-sector
Part 1—Preliminary
1 Name of legislative instrument
This is the ASIC (Supervisory Cost Recovery Levy—Regulatory Costs) Instrument 2021/0938.
2 Commencement and date of effect
(1) This instrument commences on the day after it is registered on the Federal Register of Legislation.
Note: The register may be accessed at www.legislation.gov.au.
(2) This instrument takes effect as follows:
(a) if subsection 11(3) of ASIC Supervisory Cost Recovery Levy Act 2017 applies—the instrument takes effect on the day specified in paragraph 11(3)(a) of that Act;
(b) if subsection 11(4) of ASIC Supervisory Cost Recovery Levy Act 2017 applies—the remaining provisions of the instrument take effect on the day specified in paragraph 11(4)(a) of that Act.
Note 1: Section 11 of the ASIC Supervisory Cost Recovery Levy Act 2017 contains special provisions dealing with the disallowance and taking effect of instruments of this kind.
Note 2: Subsection 10(8) of the ASIC Supervisory Cost Recovery Levy Act 2017 has the effect that the instrument can have retrospective application before the day it is registered on the Federal Register of Legislation. The register may be accessed at www.legislation.gov.au.
3 Authority
This instrument is made under subsection 12A(6) of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001 for the purposes of subsection 10(2) of the ASIC Supervisory Cost Recovery Levy Act 2017.
4 Definitions
In this instrument:
(a) Act means the ASIC Supervisory Cost Recovery Levy Act 2017;
(b) unless the contrary intention appears, an expression that:
(i) is used, but not defined, in this instrument; and
(ii) is defined in the Act;
has the same meaning in this instrument as in the Act.
Part 2—Determination
5 Applicable financial year
This determination applies to the 2020–21 financial year.
6 ASIC's regulatory costs
ASIC's regulatory costs for the financial year are $314,092,158.
7 Attribution of ASIC's regulatory costs to each sub-sector
Column 3 of the table specifies the extent to which ASIC's regulatory costs are attributable to the sub-sector specified in column 2 of the table.
Column 1 Column 2 Column 3
Item Sub-sectors Extent to which regulatory costs are attributable to the
sub-sector ($)
1 Auditors of disclosing entities 7,822,930
2 Australian derivative trade repository operators 127,212
2A Benchmark administrators 424,035
3 Corporate advisors 1,664,640
4 Credit intermediaries 11,361,967
5 Credit providers 33,057,339
6 Credit rating agencies 55,767
7 Custodians 311,256
8 Deposit product providers 7,521,038
8A Established specialised market operators 685,469
9 Exempt CS facility operators 3,587
10 Exempt market operators 68,440
11 Insurance product distributors 3,010,547
12 Insurance product providers 24,594,548
13 Large futures exchange operators 1,426,999
14 Large futures exchange participants 3,624,160
15 Large proprietary companies 7,925,280
16 Large securities exchange operators 4,600,607
17 Large securities exchange participants 19,941,999
18 Licensees that provide only general advice to retail clients or wholesale clients 602,613
19 Licensees that provide personal advice on relevant financial products to retail clients 25,759,149
20 Licensees that provide personal advice to only wholesale clients 84,651
21 Licensees that provide personal advice to retail clients on only products that are not relevant financial products 189,817
22 Listed corporations 58,247,190
23 Managed discretionary account providers 2,417,914
24 Margin lenders 70,357
24A New specialised market operators 3,736
25 Operators of investor directed portfolio services 953,013
25A Operators of notified foreign passport funds and regulated former notified funds 6,736
26 Overseas market operators 440,880
27 Over-the-counter traders 8,725,354
28 Payment product providers 2,405,649
29 Public companies (unlisted) 2,973,021
30 Registered company auditors 1,806,632
31 Registered liquidators 5,124,833
32 Responsible entities 25,203,601
33 Retail over-the-counter derivatives issuers 10,558,671
34 Risk management product providers 118,762
35 Securities dealers 1,944,910
36 Small and medium amount credit providers 4,897,428
38 Small futures exchange operators 639,776
39 Small securities exchange operators 570,028
40 Small securities exchange operators with self-listing function only 934
41 Superannuation trustees 26,947,964
42 Tier 1 clearing and settlement facility operators 1,599,620
43 Tier 2 clearing and settlement facility operators 171,301
44 Tier 3 clearing and settlement facility operators 26,015
45 Tier 4 clearing and settlement facility operators 934
46 Traditional trustee company service providers 277,883
47 Wholesale electricity dealers 86,709
48 Wholesale trustees 3,008,257