CCLSR Centre for Corporate Law & Securities Regulation The Online Corporation: Electronic corporate communications Discussion paper Written by: Dr Elizabeth Boros December 1999 THE ONLINE CORPORATION Your comments Your response is invited to the enclosed questionnaire. Responses are due by Friday 18 February 2000 and should be sent to: Dr Elizabeth Boros The Online Corporation project Centre for Corporate Law & Securities Regulation The University of Melbourne Parkville Vic 3010 Facsimile: (03) 9417 5452 Email:
[email protected] You can also contact the Centre for Corporate Law & Securities Regulation on 03 9344 5281 for information and assistance. Your response (and your name) will be made available to ASIC. Subject to legal limitations, your response will be kept confidential by both Dr Elizabeth Boros and ASIC. If at any stage you wish to withdraw your response, you are free to do so. If you have any complaints or concerns about the conduct of this project, you can contact the Administrator of the Centre for Corporate Law & Securities Regulation, Ms Ann Graham, on 03 9344 5281. Copies of this Paper You can get copies of this Paper from: The Centre for Corporate Law & Securities Regulation 03 9344 5281 or ASIC Infoline: 1300 300 630 or download it from: the Centre home page: http://cclsr.law.unimelb.edu.au/research_papers or the ASIC home page: http://www.asic.gov.au 2 THE ONLINE CORPORATION Contents 1. INTRODUCTION..............................................................4 Summary ..........................................................................4 Background to this Paper .................................................5 Structure of this Paper......................................................8 Terminology......................................................................8 2. ELECTRONIC DELIVERY.............................................10 Background ....................................................................10 Issues for consideration..................................................11 3.