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Duties Act 2001
sec.124Exemption—deceased person’s estate
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### sec.124 Exemption—deceased person’s estate
Transfer duty is not imposed on the following dutiable transactions—
a transfer, or agreement for the transfer, of dutiable property to the extent that it gives effect to a distribution in the estate of a deceased person;
the creation of a trust of dutiable property to the extent that it gives effect to a distribution in the estate of a deceased person;
a transfer, or agreement for the transfer, of dutiable property to the extent that it gives effect to a court order under the Succession Act 1981 , part 4 ;
a vesting of dutiable property under the Succession Act 1981 , section 45 ;
a vesting of dutiable property under the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Land Holding Act 2013 , section 69A , including the section as it continues to apply under section 96 of that Act.
Also, see section 66 (When no transfer duty on trust acquisition or trust surrender).
s 124 amd 2022 No. 14 s 4
- (a) a transfer, or agreement for the transfer, of dutiable property to the extent that it gives effect to a distribution in the estate of a deceased person;
- (b) the creation of a trust of dutiable property to the extent that it gives effect to a distribution in the estate of a deceased person;
- (c) a transfer, or agreement for the transfer, of dutiable property to the extent that it gives effect to a court order under the Succession Act 1981 , part 4 ;
- (d) a vesting of dutiable property under the Succession Act 1981 , section 45 ;
- (e) a vesting of dutiable property under the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Land Holding Act 2013 , section 69A , including the section as it continues to apply under section 96 of that Act.