Since 2020 ASIC has published a regulatory tracker which lists new and updated legislative instruments issued by it. Here’s the 2025 list.

Here’s a snapshot of what’s changed recently:

• ASIC Corporations and Credit (Amendment) Instrument 2025/289 amends the ASIC Corporations and Credit (Breach Reporting—Reportable Situations) Instrument 2024/620

• ASIC Corporations (Electronic Disclosure) Instrument 2025/447 replaces the ASIC Corporations (Facilitating Electronic Delivery of Financial Services Disclosure) Instrument 2015/647 and ASIC Corporations (Removing Barriers to Electronic Disclosure) Instrument 2015/649

• ASIC Corporations (31-day Notice Term Deposits) Instrument 2025/172 updates the definition of “basic deposit product”

• ASIC Corporations (Financial Services Guide, General Advice Warning and Advertising Related Relief) Instrument 2025/234 consolidates and continues the relief currently provided by the following three instruments which have been repealed: ASIC Corporations (Advertising by Product Issuers) Instrument 2015/539; ASIC Corporations (General Advice Warning) Instrument 2015/540; and ASIC Corporations (Financial Services Guides) Instrument 2015/541.

• ASIC Corporations (Basic Deposit and General Insurance Product Distribution) Instrument 2025/520 provides relief from the requirement for an Australian financial services (AFS) licensee to appoint a distributor of a basic deposit product or general insurance product as its authorised representative. It remakes ASIC Corporations (Basic Deposit and General Insurance Product Distribution) Instrument 2015/682 (Instrument 2015/682), originally made in 2015.

• ASIC Corporations (Amendment) Instrument 2025/456 exempts insurers and brokers from certain retail client obligations under the Corporations Act, specifically when incidental retail cover is provided in wholesale insurance contracts. It amends ASIC Corporations (Incidental Retail Cover) Instrument 2022/716 to extend the relief until 16 August 2030.

• ASIC Corporations (Deposit Product Disclosure) Instrument 2025/509 remakes ASIC Corporations (Deposit Product Disclosure) Instrument 2015/683, which exempts regulated persons from the requirement for a Product Disclosure Statement for a deposit product to specify the interest rate. The exemption applies in specified circumstances. It also exempts issuers of deposit products from including the termination value in periodic statements..

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Author: David Jacobson
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