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STAMP ACT 1921 - SECT 73AA

73AA .         Duty on conveyance not passing a beneficial interest

        (1)         A conveyance or transfer —

            (a)         made for effectuating the appointment of a new trustee, or the retirement of a trustee, whether the trust is expressed or implied;

            (b)         made to a beneficiary by a trustee or by another person in a fiduciary capacity, except a discretionary trustee or a unit trustee, under any trust whether express or implied;

            (c)         made to a beneficiary by a discretionary trustee under any trust whether express or implied otherwise than in the exercise of any power of appointment;

            (d)         made by a discretionary trustee, in the exercise of a power of appointment over the property conveyed or transferred, to a beneficiary who is an individual for his own use and benefit, if —

                  (i)         at the time when the discretionary trustee acquired the property conveyed or transferred the beneficiary was named or described in the instrument which created the power of appointment as a beneficiary or as a member of a class of beneficiaries in whose favour the discretionary trustee was empowered by that instrument to appoint the property; and

                  (ii)         evidence of the acquisition by the discretionary trustee, as such trustee, of the property conveyed or transferred is produced to the Commissioner with that conveyance or transfer;

            (e)         made to the holder of a unit in a unit trust scheme by a unit trustee if —

                  (i)         evidence of the acquisition by the unit trustee, as trustee of that unit trust scheme, of the property conveyed or transferred is produced to the Commissioner with that conveyance or transfer; and

                  (ii)         the Commissioner is satisfied that —

                        (I)         the conveyance or transfer has the effect of reducing the rights of the holder of the unit in respect of the property held by the unit trustee to the extent of the property, or the value of the property, conveyed or transferred; and

        (II)         the conveyance or transfer does not have the effect of varying, abrogating or altering the rights of the holder or holders of other units under the unit trust scheme in respect of the remaining property held by the unit trustee;

                or

            (f)         not otherwise coming within this section but which the Commissioner is satisfied —

                  (i)         does not pass a beneficial interest in the property conveyed or transferred;

                  (ii)         is not made in contemplation of the passing of a beneficial interest therein; and

                  (iii)         is not part of, or made pursuant to, a scheme whereby any beneficial interest in the property conveyed or transferred, whether vested or contingent, has passed or will or may pass,

                shall be charged with duty in accordance with item 6 of the Second Schedule.

        (2)         A conveyance or transfer that is —

            (a)         made by any trustee or other person in a fiduciary capacity to a beneficiary; or

            (b)         made by a unit trustee to the holder of a unit in a unit trust scheme,

                and that does not conform to subsection (1)(b), (c), (d) or (e), and a conveyance or transfer in respect of which the Commissioner is not satisfied as mentioned in subsection (1)(f), shall be deemed to operate as a voluntary disposition and is chargeable with duty under section 75(1).

        [Section 73AA inserted by No. 81 of 1984 s. 17; amended by No. 33 of 1987 s. 18; No. 20 of 1996 s. 24; No. 2 of 2003 s. 51.]



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