Australian Securities Regulatory Guidance (ASIC)

Australia · aggiornamenti: monthly · au-securities-guidance

ASIC regulatory guides — the guidance an Australian financial-services or credit licensing question is answered against — collected from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s own sitemap with no API key and no login. One record is one regulatory guide at its current issue, keyed by the guide number a practitioner cites, so RG 1 stays RG 1 across the reissues ASIC publishes under the same number. Withdrawal is part of the product rather than a filter: 102 of the 274 guides ASIC lists are withdrawn, every record states whether its guide is withdrawn, and where the publisher gives a withdrawal or supersession date that date is carried too — because whether a guide was in force when it was relied on is a compliance question, not a footnote. A withdrawn guide whose page no longer serves its document is counted rather than released as an empty record. The as-of axis is doubled and both halves are kept: the issue date the landing page prints and the publication date the document’s own file name carries, with a field recording whether the two agree, because they disagree on 11 of the 170 guides released and the buyer is entitled to see both rather than our choice between them. Month-only issue dates are carried as months rather than rounded to a day. Each guide’s identity is proved three times before anything is downloaded — from its URL, from the machine-readable document number its page carries and from its heading — and once more against the document’s own first page, so a page that links the wrong guide’s PDF is refused rather than released under a number the text does not carry. The document URL is read off the page and never constructed: ASIC serves these PDFs behind opaque media identifiers that cannot be derived from the guide number. Only born-digital PDF text layers are read: there is no OCR, and a document whose text cannot be extracted is refused and counted with an attestation naming the extractor, page count and yield rather than shipped as an empty record. Reproduction rests on ASIC’s own copyright grant, which places regulatory guides under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence and states that they may be reproduced in hard copy or electronic format, for sale or for free, on condition that ownership of the content is acknowledged — so the acknowledgement ASIC prescribes is stamped on every record, and the layout, design and formatting the same page reserves are never reproduced at all. A guide whose own notice reserves more than that grant allows — a joint guide licensed for unaltered reproduction only, a guide reproducing third-party standards material — is refused rather than released under a Creative Commons claim its own bytes contradict. Every record carries its source URL, fetch timestamp, HTTP status and the SHA-256 of both the raw response and the extracted record. Every release ships a manifest with every file’s SHA-256 and a Merkle root over every chunk hash, which the buyer can recompute from the downloaded files. record_id and chunk_id are stable across releases. Personal data is screened out inside the pipeline before any hash is computed.