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title: "ASX announcement sign-off checklist (market sensitivity, verification, authorisation and release)"
url: "https://ailawframework.com/precedents/capital-markets-and-securities-ecm-dcm-and-disclosure/asx-announcement-sign-off-checklist"
type: "precedent"
site: "AI Law Framework"
id: "a4-asx-announcement-sign-off-checklist"
area_id: "A4"
kind: "checklist"
ai_level: "yellow"
version: 1
task_ids: ["A4-T1-R2", "A4-X20260927-10"]
law_stated_as_at: "2026-10-18"
---

# ASX announcement sign-off checklist (market sensitivity, verification, authorisation and release)

> A checklist for each ASX announcement: whether it is market sensitive under Listing Rule 3.1, verification of every statement against source documents, consistency with earlier disclosure, authorisation, and the…

Canonical page: https://ailawframework.com/precedents/capital-markets-and-securities-ecm-dcm-and-disclosure/asx-announcement-sign-off-checklist  
Law stated as at: 2026-10-18

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A checklist for each ASX announcement: whether it is market sensitive under Listing Rule 3.1, verification of every statement against source documents, consistency with earlier disclosure, authorisation, and the Listing Rule 15.7 rule that nothing goes to media or anyone else before ASX releases it.

## Key facts

- Kind: Checklist. Steps or checks to work through and tick off.
- Practice area: [Capital Markets & Securities — ECM/DCM and Disclosure](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/capital-markets-and-securities-ecm-dcm-and-disclosure.md)
- Jurisdictions: Australia
- AI level: Yellow. AI can help in set ways. A lawyer checks specific points before use.
- Law stated as at: 2026-10-18
- Status: Maintained. Checked on 2026-10-18 against the 2 authorities it cites, for Australia.

## When to use it

Use for every announcement a listed entity gives to ASX, especially results, guidance, material contracts, capital raisings and responses to market speculation. Complete it alongside the continuous disclosure policy and the disclosure decision record in this library.

## Used for these tasks

- [Draft a market-disclosure announcement and consistency check](https://ailawframework.com/practice/capital-markets-and-securities-ecm-dcm-and-disclosure/draft-a-market-disclosure-announcement-and-consistency-check.md)
- [Build the disclosure decision record for a market-sensitive development](https://ailawframework.com/practice/capital-markets-and-securities-ecm-dcm-and-disclosure.md#A4-X20260927-10)

## How AI may be used

AI may run the verification and consistency checks against the source documents and earlier announcements and fill the checklist; the lawyer, company secretary and authorising officers decide market sensitivity, the final wording and release.

**AI may:**

- Mark each factual statement in the draft and link it to its source document, flagging any without a source
- Compare figures and statements with earlier announcements, the latest financial report and guidance, and list inconsistencies
- Check defined terms, names, dates and units across the announcement and its attachments

**AI must not:**

- Must not decide whether the information is market sensitive or whether an exception under Listing Rule 3.1A applies
- Must not send the announcement, or any part of it, to anyone outside the approved release path before ASX acknowledges release
- Must not process unannounced information in a tool outside the approved, access-controlled environment

**The lawyer checks:**

- Market sensitivity decided and recorded, and the timing meets the "immediately" standard in Listing Rule 3.1
- Every statement verified; forward-looking statements have reasonable grounds and the basis is disclosed
- Authorisation given by the person or body the disclosure policy requires
- Media release, investor presentation and social posts held until ASX acknowledges release (Listing Rule 15.7)

## Authorities

- [ASX Listing Rule 3.1 (immediate disclosure of information a reasonable person would expect to have a material effect on price or value) and 3.1A (exception)](https://www.asx.com.au/documents/rules/Chapter03.pdf)
- [ASX Listing Rule 15.7 (do not release information for release to the market to any person until ASX has acknowledged its release; prohibits giving it to media even on an embargoed basis)](https://www.asx.com.au/documents/rules/Chapter15.pdf)

## Full text and drafting notes

The full text and the drafting notes are not part of this public page. Signed-in firm accounts can read them at https://ailawframework.com/precedents/capital-markets-and-securities-ecm-dcm-and-disclosure/asx-announcement-sign-off-checklist and through the signed-in MCP connector https://ailawframework.com/mcp/firm.

*Practice guidance for planning and review. Confirm current primary sources and the requirements of the actual matter. This is general information, not legal advice.*