109Interest on trust accounts

109 Interest on trust accounts (1) On the 10th ADI business day in each month, the authorised deposit-taking institution with which a trust account has been kept during the previous month must— (a) work out the interest at the specified rate on the daily balances, during the previous month, of the amount held in each account that the authorised deposit-taking institution has been notified is a trust account; and (b) pay to the Territory an amount equal to the total of the amounts of interest worked out. (2) For subsection (1) (a), the specified rate, for a particular day, is 70% of the yield of authorised deposit-taking institution accepted bills published by the Reserve Bank of Australia for the day. (3) An authorised deposit-taking institution may deduct from an amount payable under subsection (1) (b) an amount equal to any tax or charge that the authorised deposit-taking institution is required, under a law of a Territory, Commonwealth or State, to pay in relation to the amount payable. (4) This section does not apply in relation to a trust account exempted by