{"id":"C1915L00014","name":"Estate Duty Regulations 1915 (Provisional)","slug":"estate-duty-regulations-1915-provisional","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"repealed","isInForce":false,"actNumber":"14 of 1915","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":20621,"registerId":"commonwealth-C1915L00014-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-01","status":"Repealed","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Estate Duty Regulations 1915 (Provisional)","content":"STATUTORY RULES.\n\n1915\\. No. 14.\n\nPROVISIONAL REGULATIONS UNDER THE ESTATE DUTY ASSESSMENT ACT 1914.\n\nI, SIR ARTHUR STANLEY, Governor of the State of Victoria and its Dependencies in the Commonwealth of Australia, acting as the Deputy of the Governor-General in accordance with the provisions of the constitution, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, do hereby certify that, on account of urgency, the following Regulations under the Estate Duty Assessment Act 1914 should come into immediate operation, and make the Regulations to come into operation forthwith as Provisional Regulations.\n\nDated this twenty-eighth day of January, One thousand nine hundred and fifteen.\n\nA. L. STANLEY,\n\nDeputy of the Governor-General.\n\nBy His Excellency’s Command,\n\nE. J. RUSSELL,\n\nActing Treasurer.\n\nPART I.—INTRODUCTORY.\n\nShort Title.\n\n1\\. These Regulations may be cited as the Estate Duty Regulations 1915.\n\nParts.\n\n2\\. These Regulations are divided into Parts, as follows:—\n\nPart I.—Introductory.\n\nPart II.—Returns.\n\nPart III.—Payment of Duty.\n\nPart IV.—Appeals against Duty.\n\nPart V.—Miscellaneous.\n\nDefinition.\n\n3\\. In these Regulations “The Act” means the Estate Duty Assessment Act 1914.\n\nPART II.—RETURNS.\n\nExemption from Furnishing Return.\n\n4\\. The administrator of an estate, the net value of which does not exceed One thousand pounds, after allowing the deductions provided by the Act, need not furnish a return unless called upon, in writing, by the Commissioner or Deputy Commissioner to do so.\n\nC.391.—Price 3d.\n\nForm of Return.\n\n5\\. The return required by Section 10 (1) of the Act to be furnished by an administrator may be in accordance with the first form in the schedule:\n\nProvided that the Commissioner may accept a return in a substantially similar form to the prescribed form.\n\nTime for Lodging Returns.\n\n6\\. The return shall be furnished by the administrator within one month after the death of the person in respect of whose estate he is the administrator, or within such further time as is allowed by the Commissioner.\n\nWhere Returns shall be Lodged.\n\n7\\. (1) The return required by the Act and the Regulations shall be lodged at the Office of the Deputy Commissioner of Taxation in the State in which the estate of the deceased person is situate if the estate of the deceased person is limited to real or personal property in that State.\n\n(2) If the estate of a deceased person extends to more than one State of the Commonwealth the return required by the Act and the Regulations shall be furnished to the Commissioner at Melbourne.\n\nSignature to Returns.\n\n8\\. Every return shall be signed by the administrator, and if he is unable to write his name, his signature, which shall be made by his mark, shall be attested by a witness, who shall sign as such.\n\nAddress to be Furnished.\n\n9\\. Every administrator shall give upon every return his Postal address for service of notices, &c., and shall give notice of any change in his Postal address within one calendar month after such change, and in default of the notice being given the administrator shall not be permitted to avail himself of the fact of the change of address in defence in any proceedings which may be instituted against him for any breach of the Act or Regulations.\n\nPostage on Returns.\n\n10\\. Every return or statement addressed and posted to the Commissioner or to a Deputy Commissioner must bear the proper postage.\n\nAdditions to Forms.\n\n11\\. The Commissioner may cause to be made in any returns such additions or corrections as he thinks fit. Such additions or corrections shall be made in different coloured ink from that in the return, and shall be initialed by the person making them.\n\nNotation on Returns.\n\n12\\. The Commissioner may cause to be written on any return such observations and directions as he thinks fit.\n\nPART III.—PAYMENT OF DUTY.\n\nPlaces of Payment.\n\n13\\. Duty may be paid at the Office of the Commissioner or of the Deputy in any State in any of the following modes:—\n\n(a) By Cash, or Bank Notes, or Cheques, including exchange.\n\n(b) By direct remittance by Bank Draft or Cheque, or Post Office Order or Postal Note, payable in the capital city of the State for the net amount payable plus exchange.\n\nPower to Deduct Exchange, Etc.\n\n14\\. The Commissioner or Deputy Commissioner, as the case may be, shall credit an administrator with the net amount only of duty received, and shall first deduct from any remittance received from an administrator the amount of any charge by way of exchange or duty stamp upon any remittance, and the amount of postage and surcharge paid upon any unstamped or insufficiently stamped communication received through the post from him.\n\nPart Payment of Duty.\n\n15\\. Except with the express consent of the Commissioner, no money shall be received on account of or in part payment of duty.\n\nDuty Not Paid till Cheque Collected.\n\n16\\. When payment or remittance is made by cheque, the duty shall not be deemed to be paid, notwithstanding any receipt given therefor, until the amount of the cheque has been collected.\n\nPART IV.—APPEALS.\n\nForm of Appeal.\n\n17\\. The Notice of Appeal provided by Section 24 (5) of the Act may be in accordance with the second form in the schedule.\n\nPART IV.—MISCELLANEOUS.\n\nSignature of Authorized Officer.\n\n18\\. A notice to be given by the Commissioner may be given by any officer of the Commissioner duly authorized in that behalf; and any notice purporting to be signed by the authority of the Commissioner shall be as valid and effective for all purposes as if signed by the Commissioner in person.\n\nSpecial Notice.\n\n19\\. When the Commissioner in the exercise of any power vested in him by the Act or Regulations gives any special notice such notice may prescribe the time within which the act therein mentioned may be done, not being less than seven days from the service of such notice.\n\nNotices and Forms.\n\n20\\. All Notices and Forms may be wholly or in part in printing, writing, or typewriting.\n\nTHE SCHEDULE.\n\nCOMMONWEALTH![Commonwealth of Australia Coat of Arms](image.001.png)OF AUSTRALIA\n\n\\[First Form.\n\nESTATE DUTY ASSESSMENT ACT 1914.\n\nIn the estate of...............................late of...........................\n\nin the State of..............................................................\n\n![](image.002.png)deceased. Testate \nIntestate.\\*\n\nI,..................................of.................................... in the State of do solemnly and sincerely declare—\n\n1\\. I am the person liable under the Estate Duty Assessment Act 1914 to make a return of the estate of the above-mentioned deceased and to pay the duty thereon under the said Act.\n\n2\\. The said deceased died on the.........day of ............................191 at and was aged years months. \\* ![](image.003.png) was at time of death† and had during life followed the occupation of\n\n3\\. That the annexed Statement and accompanying Schedules contain a true statement of all and singular the real and personal estate of or to which the above-mentioned deceased was at the time of death possessed or entitled, and that the values thereof as therein set forth are the true and full values of the several particulars therein mentioned respectively, and that the liabilities therein stated are justly due thereon, and that the balance of therein appearing is the full not assessable value of the said real and personal estate.\n\n4\\. That the deceased did not within one year immediately preceding death make any gift inter vivos or settlement of any estate, real or personal.‡\n\n5\\. That the deceased did not within one year immediately preceding death surrender to remaindermen a life interest in property comprised in a settlement under which he was tenant for life.‡\n\n6\\. That the deceased had not at the time of death a beneficial interest in property, which beneficial interest, by virtue of a settlement or agreement made by him, passed or accrued on or after his death to, or devolved on or after his death upon, any other person.‡\n\n7\\. That the deceased did not prior to death exercise by his will any general power of appointment over real or personal properly dutiable under the said Act.‡\n\n8\\. That the deceased was at the time of death domiciled §............................\n\n9\\. That the estate of the deceased is situated ‖.....................................\n\nAnd I make this solemn declaration, &c. (following form of Statutory Declarations Act 1911)—\n\nAdministrator.................................\n\nDeclared at........................... in the State of\n\nthe............day of.......191..,\n\nbefore me—\n\n...............................\n\nCommissioner for Affidavits,\n\nor J.P., or Commissioner for Declarations.\n\n\\* Strike out whichever is unnecessary.\n\n† State whether married, bachelor, spinster, widower, or widow.\n\n‡ If he had, insert, “save and except that/those described and valued to schedule No ”\n\n| State whether “in Australia” or “out of Australia.”\n\n|| Name the State or States of the Commonwealth or the places outside the Commonwealth where the estate to be included in this return is situated.\n\nIn the Estate of......................... late of in the State of deceased.\n\nSTATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES.\n\nThis Statement is to include and separately describe any estate, real or personal, which is the subject of any gift inter vivos or settlement by the deceased, made within one year before his decease, or being property comprised in a settlement under within he was tenant for life, the life interest of which was surrendered by him to the establishment within one year before his decease; and property in which he had a beneficial interest at the time of his decease, which beneficial interest by virtue of a settlement or agreement made by him passed or accrued on or after his decease to, or devolved on or after his decease upon, any other person.\n\n```html\n

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*Real Estate in Australia, as per Schedule No. (that in each State to be shown separately)

†Personal Estate (that in each State to be shown separately)—

Leasehold estate of all kinds as per valuations in Schedule No.

Rents due on death of deceased, as per Schedule No.

Life Insurance Policies and Bonuses, as per Schedule No.

Secured Debts (Distinguish between mortgages and other secured debts)

Money in hand or house..........

Money in Bank on current account [state the Banks]

Money in Bank on fixed deposit (state the Banks)

Money in Bank on fixed deposit, “…....” accrued interest,

Mortgage “…..”................

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Schedule

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“accrued Interest

Debentures of all kinds, Treasury Bills or other similar securities and accrued interest, as per Schedule No.

Unsecured Debts—

Debts due to the Estate, as per Schedule No.

Shares in Companies

Accrued

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Dividends

from shares in Companies

Furniture and household effects, as per Schedule No.

Watches, Trinkets, Jewellery, &c., as per Schedule No.

Carriages Harness and Saddlery, as per Schedule No.

Crops, as per Schedule No.........

Live Stock, as per Schedule No......

Farming Implements, as per Schedule No.

Plant &c. as per Schedule No.

Tools, as per Schedule No..........

Stock in shop or business, as per Schedule No.

Goodwill or trade or business

Interest in a deceased person’s estate..

Interest in a partnership, as per balance-sheet and valuations

Other personal property not coming under any of the above headings, as per Schedule No.

Other Liabilities—(including the value of the estate devised or bequeathed, or passing by gift Inter vivos or settlement for religious, scientific, charitable, or public educational purposes, as per details on next following page)

\n```\n\n\\* Lands held from the Crown under conditions of purchase are to be valued as freeholds, and the balances due to the Crown are to be set out as charges against the estate.\n\n† Personal property wherever situated must be shown if the deceased was ordinarily domiciled in Australia, and personal property in Australia must be shown separately from personal property outside Australia. If he was not ordinarily domiciled in Australia the personal property in Australia only is to be stated, including debts, money and choses in action receivable or recoverable by the administrator in Australia.\n\nProperty not coming under any of the above headings must be particularized separately under a special heading describing it.\n\nThe word “nil” should be written against each in the headings under which there is no estate.\n\nNote.—If the deceased was not ordinarily domiciled in Australia at the time of death, the debts due and owing to persons resident in Australia, or contracted to be paid in Australia, or charged on property situated in Australia are the only deductions allowed from the estate. These debts should be fully set out and the creditors’ names and address given, and, if charged on property in Australia, the property should be fully described.\n\nBENEFICIARIES IN THE ESTATE.\n\n```html\n

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Address.

Relation to Deceased.

Interest.

Value of Interest.

Nature. (e.g., fractional shares, annuity legacy, &c.)

How Derived (e.g., by will, Intestacy, settlement, gift inter vivos.)

\n```\n\nDetails of parts of the estate and the values thereof which are devised or bequeathed, or which pass by gift inter vivos or settlement for religious, scientific, charitable, or public educational purposes.\n\nNote.—“Public educational purposes” includes the settlement or endowment of an educational institution for the benefit of the public or a section of the public.\n\nSecond Form.\n\nCOMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA.\n\n| In the High Court of Australia.OrIn the Supreme Court of the State of in the Commonwealth of Australia. | In the matter of the Estate Duty Act 1914 and the Estate Duty Assessment Act 1914. |\n| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |\n\nAppeal.\n\nIn the matter of the Estate of................................late of..............\n\nIn the State of.............................................deceased.\n\nWhereas.................Commissioner of Taxation, has, pursuant to the powers conferred upon him by Section 15 of the Estate Duty Assessment Act 1914. made an assessment of duty payable under the said Act on a dutiable value of £ and has demanded payment of the sum of £ as duty on the above-mentioned Estate by Notice of Assessment dated\n\nand Whereas I,...........................Administrator of the said Estate, being dissatisfied with the assessment did duly ledge with the Commissioner of Taxation an objection in writing against the assessment;\n\nand Whereas the Commissioner of Taxation has considered the objection and has\\*...........\n\nand Whereas I am dissatisfied with the decision of the Commissioner on my objection. I do now appeal to the Court at in the State of and do pray the Court to order that the assessment shall be made on a dutiable value of £\n\nDated at.................................this..............................\n\nday of...................191.\n\nAdministrator.....................\n\n\\* State “disallowed the objection,” or. “allowed the objection in part only,” as the case requires.\n\nPrinted and Published for the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia by Albert J. Mullett, Government Printer for the State of Victoria.","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"_metrics":{"model":"kimi-k2.5","source":"moonshot-realtime","completionTokens":2010},"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":4,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"These regulations implement the procedural machinery established by the Estate Duty Assessment Act 1914. The scope remains strictly limited to administrative procedures for returns, payments, and appeals, consistent with the parent Act's framework for collecting estate duty. No expansion beyond the Act's original purpose is evident."},"complexity_factors":["Cross-references to primary legislation (Estate Duty Assessment Act 1914) throughout","Differential filing requirements based on whether estate spans single or multiple States","Domicile-based distinctions for asset reporting (Australian domiciled vs foreign domiciled deceased)","Detailed tabular schedules requiring granular categorization of assets (real estate, leaseholds, livestock, shares, etc.) and liabilities","Exchange rate and banking charge deduction calculations","Conditional exemption threshold of £1,000 with Commissioner override power"],"plain_english_summary":"These regulations set out the practical filing, payment and appeal rules for Australia’s federal estate duty under the Estate Duty Assessment Act 1914. Executors or administrators must file a detailed statutory return of assets, liabilities and beneficiaries (with special rules for domicile) promptly after death, generally with the State deputy commissioner or, for multi‑State estates, the Commissioner in Melbourne.\n\nThey also prescribe how duty is paid (accepted instruments, cheque clearance, part‑payments by permission), signing/postal formalities, and appeal rights to the High Court or State Supreme Court."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/estate-duty-regulations-1915-provisional","history":"/api/acts/estate-duty-regulations-1915-provisional/history","analysis":"/api/acts/estate-duty-regulations-1915-provisional/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/estate-duty-regulations-1915-provisional/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/estate-duty-regulations-1915-provisional/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/estate-duty-regulations-1915-provisional/documents"}}