Part 6Licensing and other regulation of market services
Miscellaneous provisions: Civil liability
449Part 6 services provisions
All of the provisions specified in subsections (3) and (4) are Part 6 services provisions.
A contravention of any of the provisions listed in subsection (3) may give rise to civil liability (see subpart 3 of Part 8), including a pecuniary penalty not exceeding the greatest of the consideration for the relevant transaction, 3 times the amount of the gain made or the loss avoided, and $1 million in the case of an individual or $5 million in any other case.
The provisions are the following:
- section 388 (when provider of market services needs to be licensed):
- section 391 (prohibitions on holding out):
- section 427(2), (3), and (6) (false or misleading statements and omissions):
- section 430 (need for client agreement):
- section 431 (contents, form, and effect of client agreement):
- section 431P, to the extent that a person may be civilly liable for a contravention of the provision under section 431H (false or misleading statements and omissions):
- section 431Y (false or misleading statements and omissions):
- section 445 (requirements for custodian):
- section 446 (certain client money or property service obligations under subpart 5B apply to DIMS licensees and custodians):
- sections 446G, 446H, and 446I (duties to have effective fair conduct programme, to make information about it publicly available, and to comply with it):
- section 446K (financial institution’s duty to comply with incentives regulations):
- section 446L (intermediary’s duty to comply with incentives regulations):
- section 446V(3)(b) (Lloyd’s managing agent’s duties relating to its fair conduct programme).
A contravention of any of the following may give rise to civil liability (see subpart 3 of Part 8), including a pecuniary penalty not exceeding $200,000 in the case of an individual or $600,000 in any other case:
- section 411 (licensee must deliver reports to FMA):
- section 412 (licensee must report certain matters):
- section 417 (action plan):
- section 418 (approval, amendment, or rejection of action plan):
- section 420 (directions):
- section 423 (disclosure must be made to retail investor):
- section 426A (further prescribed information to be made available):
- section 427(4) or (5) (failure to provide a new disclosure statement):
- section 431F (limitation on who can give regulated financial advice to retail clients on behalf of financial advice provider):
- section 431G (prohibitions on holding out in relation to giving financial advice):
- sections 431I to 431O, to the extent that a person may be civilly liable for a contravention of the provision under section 431H (duties on persons giving regulated financial advice):
- sections 431Q, 431R, and 431T(5) (additional duties on financial advice providers and interposed persons that engage others to give advice):
- section 431X (client money or property service disclosure obligations):
- sections 431ZA and 431ZB (client money or property service conduct obligations):
- sections 431ZC to 431ZH (obligations for handling client money and client property):
- sections 433 to 435 (duties of DIMS licensee and of directors and senior managers of DIMS licensee):
- section 437 (requirement for agreed investment authority):
- section 438 (action that must be taken on limit breaks):
- section 440 (general prohibition on transactions giving related party benefits):
- section 448C, 448D, or 448G (directions to a contributor or an administrator of a financial benchmark):
- section 449A (requirements relating to exemption for Lloyd’s underwriters):
- those conditions imposed on a market services licence by the regulations that are stated by those regulations to be Part 6 services provisions:
- those provisions of the regulations made under subpart 7 that are stated by those regulations to be Part 6 services provisions.
Notes
- Section 449(3)(c): amended, on , by section 79(1) of the Regulatory Systems (Commercial Matters) Amendment Act 2017 (2017 No 12).
- Section 449(3)(ea): inserted, on , by section 32(1) of the Financial Services Legislation Amendment Act 2019 (2019 No 8).
- Section 449(3)(eb): inserted, on , by section 32(1) of the Financial Services Legislation Amendment Act 2019 (2019 No 8).
- Section 449(3)(g): replaced, on , by section 32(2) of the Financial Services Legislation Amendment Act 2019 (2019 No 8).
- Section 449(3)(h): inserted, on , by section 13(1) of the Financial Markets (Conduct of Institutions) Amendment Act 2022 (2022 No 36).
- Section 449(3)(i): inserted, on , by section 13(1) of the Financial Markets (Conduct of Institutions) Amendment Act 2022 (2022 No 36).
- Section 449(3)(j): inserted, on , by section 13(1) of the Financial Markets (Conduct of Institutions) Amendment Act 2022 (2022 No 36).
- Section 449(3)(k): inserted, on , by section 13(1) of the Financial Markets (Conduct of Institutions) Amendment Act 2022 (2022 No 36).
- Section 449(4)(g): amended, on , by section 79(2) of the Regulatory Systems (Commercial Matters) Amendment Act 2017 (2017 No 12).
- Section 449(4)(ga): inserted, on , by section 79(3) of the Regulatory Systems (Commercial Matters) Amendment Act 2017 (2017 No 12).
- Section 449(4)(gb): inserted, on , by section 32(3) of the Financial Services Legislation Amendment Act 2019 (2019 No 8).
- Section 449(4)(gc): inserted, on , by section 32(3) of the Financial Services Legislation Amendment Act 2019 (2019 No 8).
- Section 449(4)(gd): inserted, on , by section 32(3) of the Financial Services Legislation Amendment Act 2019 (2019 No 8).
- Section 449(4)(ge): inserted, on , by section 32(3) of the Financial Services Legislation Amendment Act 2019 (2019 No 8).
- Section 449(4)(gf): inserted, on , by section 32(3) of the Financial Services Legislation Amendment Act 2019 (2019 No 8).
- Section 449(4)(gg): inserted, on , by section 32(3) of the Financial Services Legislation Amendment Act 2019 (2019 No 8).
- Section 449(4)(gh): inserted, on , by section 32(3) of the Financial Services Legislation Amendment Act 2019 (2019 No 8).
- Section 449(4)(ka): inserted, on , by section 44 of the Financial Markets (Derivatives Margin and Benchmarking) Reform Amendment Act 2019 (2019 No 46).
- Section 449(4)(kb): inserted, on , by section 13(2) of the Financial Markets (Conduct of Institutions) Amendment Act 2022 (2022 No 36).


