ABACUS - Australian Mutuals

This page contains documents and submissions available for downloading related to the Mutual Banking Code of Practice.

The revised Mutual Banking Code of Practice has been developed in close consultation with the community, regulators and consumer groups. Abacus published the original draft for consultation in November 2007 - a copy of the original draft and copies of the submissions received by Abacus are available below, together with an explanatory document that summarises the major changes made to the original draft and the rationale for those changes.

• Mutual Banking Code of Practice, July 2009 [PDF 1.4MB]
• Mutuals Code of Practice Final Draft, April 2008 [PDF 200KB]
• Final Draft Commentary Paper, June 2008 [PDF 48KB]
• Final Draft Summary of Changes, June 2008 [PDF 62KB]
• Consultation Draft Code of Practice, November 2007 [PDF 305KB]

Abacus received submissions from the following stakeholders:

• ASIC [PDF 94KB]
• Centre for Consumer & Credit Law [PDF 59KB]
• Choice [PDF 123KB]
• Consumer Action Law Centre [PDF 59KB]
• Consumer Credit Legal Centre (NSW) [PDF 62KB]
• CUDRC (Credit Union Dispute Resolution Centre) [PDF 140KB]
• FCDRS (Financial Co-operative Dispute Resolution Scheme) [PDF 25KB]
• Lovric/Devlin/CARE Inc [41KB]
• Office of the Federal Privacy Commissioner [PDF 196KB]
• Uniform Consumer Credit Code Management Committee [PDF 1.13MB]