Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Table of cases
- Table of statutes
- Preface
- PART ONE CORPORATE GOVERNANCE: AN OVERVIEW
- PART TWO CORPORATE GOVERNANCE IN AUSTRALIA
- 5 Corporate governance in Australia – background and business initiatives
- 6 Regulation of corporate governance
- 7 The role of the regulators: ASX and ASIC
- 8 CLERP 9 reforms to the Corporations Act
- PART THREE CORPORATE GOVERNANCE IN PRACTICE
- PART FOUR CORPORATE GOVERNANCE: AN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE
- PART FIVE CORPORATE GOVERNANCE: GOING FORWARD
- Index
8 - CLERP 9 reforms to the Corporations Act
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Table of cases
- Table of statutes
- Preface
- PART ONE CORPORATE GOVERNANCE: AN OVERVIEW
- PART TWO CORPORATE GOVERNANCE IN AUSTRALIA
- 5 Corporate governance in Australia – background and business initiatives
- 6 Regulation of corporate governance
- 7 The role of the regulators: ASX and ASIC
- 8 CLERP 9 reforms to the Corporations Act
- PART THREE CORPORATE GOVERNANCE IN PRACTICE
- PART FOUR CORPORATE GOVERNANCE: AN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE
- PART FIVE CORPORATE GOVERNANCE: GOING FORWARD
- Index
Summary
The CLERP 9 Act amends a number of Acts, including the Corporations Act 2001, to give effect to reforms aimed at restoring public confidence in corporate Australia after a number of significant instances of misconduct and corporate failure.
The BDW Guide to CLERP 9 (Blake Dawson Waldron, July 2004) 22.Overview
On 1 July 2004, the Corporate Law Economic Reform Program (Audit Reform & Corporate Disclosure) Act 2004 (Cth) came into effect. This Act is now commonly referred to as the ‘CLERP 9 Act’, or simply ‘CLERP 9’, as many of the corporate law reforms implemented under this Act derived from proposals contained in a Federal Government Discussion Paper titled ‘Corporate Disclosure: Strengthening the Financial Reporting Framework’ released in September 2002 – the ninth policy proposal paper released as part of the Government's Corporate Law Economic Reform Program, or ‘CLERP’.
There is general consensus that CLERP 9 constitutes one of the most significant packages of corporate law reform, and by far the most significant effort at regulating the corporate governance practices of companies (along with the ASX Best Practice Recommendations), in Australian history. This is evident by the number of references to CLERP 9 made in this book, as well as by our decision to devote a whole chapter specifically to a discussion (albeit brief) of the history, and contents, of the CLERP 9 reforms.
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- Principles of Contemporary Corporate Governance , pp. 147 - 180Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2005
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