AUSTRALIA: ASX Proposes Amendments to the Listing Rules

Monday November 3 2025

On 31^st October 2025, the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) released its consultation paper on a consequential Amendment to Listing Rule 17.5 following the introduction of mandatory sustainability reporting .

Listing Rule 17.5 provides that trading in a listed entity’s securities will be suspended if the entity fails to lodge the annual reporting documents required under Listing Rule 4.5 by the due date.

The Corporation Act was recently amended to require some entities to prepare annual sustainability reports. This amendment to the Corporations Act has the flow on effect that the scope of Listing Rule 17.5 is expanded to require suspension of the securities of listed entities that lodge their sustainability report after the due date (to the extent that they are required to prepare those reports under the new Corporations Act requirements).

ASX is consulting on a proposed change to Listing Rule 17.5 which will have the effect that the late lodgement of an annual sustainability report will not result in mandatory suspension. This is a consequential amendment which is intended to preserve the current status quo following the changes to the Corporations Act.

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