Prepared by Catherine Evans
AFSL holders will have an additional month to lodge their financial statements with ASIC after the ASIC Corporations (Amendment) Instrument 2020/452 was passed.
The deadline to lodge statements for:
- listed AFSL holders, is extended from 3 months to 4 months;
- unlisted AFSL holders that are bodies corporate and also disclosing entities, is extended from 3 months to 4 months;
- unlisted AFSL holders that are bodies corporate and are not disclosing entities, is extended from 4 months to 5 months; and
- AFSL holders that are not bodies corporate, is extended from 2 months to 3 months.
However the extension will only apply for financial statements lodged in respect of financial years that end between 31 December 2019 and 7 July 2020.