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Duties Act 1997
104ZNExemption for property passing to beneficiaries
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#### 104ZN Exemption for property passing to beneficiaries
104ZN Exemption for property passing to beneficiaries
(cf section 57)
> > (1) No surcharge purchaser duty is chargeable on a transfer for no consideration of residential-related property to a beneficiary made under and in conformity with the trusts contained in a declaration of trust, subject to subsections (2) and (3).
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> > (2) Subsection (1) applies only to the extent that the property being transferred is property that the Chief Commissioner is satisfied is—
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> > > (a) wholly or substantially the same as the property the subject of the declaration of trust and that—
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> > > > (i) any surcharge purchaser duty has been paid on the declaration of trust over that property, or
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> > > > (ii) the declaration of trust is exempt from surcharge purchaser duty, or
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> > > (b) dutiable property representing the proceeds of re-investment of property referred to in paragraph (a), or
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> > > (c) property to which both paragraphs (a) and (b) apply.
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> > (3) Subsection (1) applies only if the transferee was a beneficiary at the time at which duty became chargeable on the declaration of trust.
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> **ss 104ZL–104ZO:** Ins 2016 No 32, Sch 1 \[14\].