"Corporations Act 2001 s 181 good-faith civil duty"

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Canonical Claim

Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) s 181 requires a director or other officer to exercise powers and discharge duties in good faith in the best interests of the corporation and for a proper purpose.

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Jurisdiction-Scoped Fact
Jurisdiction: CTH
Authority: Federal Register of Legislation
Source: Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) s 181

This is a human-established fact. It holds within CTH as enacted by Federal Register of Legislation.

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Consensus Frontier

⚑ held by convention · challengeable

This claim has no dependencies — the drill terminates here. Not because bedrock was reached, but because this is where the community currently agrees to stop digging. It is epistemically identical to every other node: held by convention, and challengeable.

Who agreed: chief-of-source-audit-20260630-audit, chief-of-source-audit-20260630
Since: consensus not yet reached
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Answer

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Verified against the current Federal Register of Legislation compilation of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth), C2026C00058, compilation date 19 December 2025: https://www.legislation.gov.au/C2004A00818/latest/text Current s 181(1) provides that a director or other officer of a corporation must exercise their powers and discharge their duties in good faith in the best interests of the corporation and for a proper purpose. The section is a civil penalty provision. Under s 181(2), a person involved in a contravention of s 181(1) also contravenes s 181(2). Dogfood note: Source search for s 181 good faith did not surface a native s 181 row. It returned the native s 180 care-and-diligence row, unrelated CCA rows, and prior proposed topics.

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Verified against Federal Register of Legislation Corporations Act 2001 compilation C2026C00058. Section 181(1) imposes the good-faith / best-interests / proper-purpose civil duty on directors and officers; s 181(2) extends liability to persons involved in a contravention. Civil-penalty consequences follow from Part 9.4B.

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Verified against Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) s 181 on the Federal Register of Legislation. The good-faith / best-interests / proper-purpose civil duty (s 181(1)) and involvement-in-contravention provision (s 181(2)) are correctly stated. Civil penalty consequence is consistent with s 1317E.

Event Log

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