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Duties Act 2008
Part 5Application of this Chapter to certain transactions
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Part 5 — Application of this Chapter to certain transactions
Division 1 — Simultaneous put and call options
44. Terms used 63
Subdivision 2 — Simultaneous put and call options
45. Call option of simultaneous put and call option to be taken to be agreement for transfer of option property 64
46. Simultaneous put and call option, dutiable value of 65
47. Dutiable transaction referred to in s. 45, duty paid on to be credited 65
48. Simultaneous put and call option not exercised or assigned, consequences of 66
Subdivision 3 — Assignment of call option
49. Assignment of call option to be taken to be agreement for transfer of option property 67
50. Assignment of call option, dutiable value of 67
51. Dutiable transaction referred to in s. 49, duty paid on to be credited 68
52. Assigned call option not exercised or further assigned, consequences of 68
Division 2 — Discretionary trust acquisitions and surrenders
53. References to partnership or trust holding property 69
54. References to taker in default 69
55. References to trust acquisition 69
56. References to trust surrender 70
57. When discretionary trust holds indirect interest in dutiable property 70
Subdivision 2 — Trust acquisitions and trust surrenders
58. When person acquires interest in discretionary trust 70
59. Trust acquisition or trust surrender, dutiable value of 71
60. References to interest in discretionary trust of taker in default 71
61. Taker in default’s interest, value of for s. 59(b) 72
62. When trust acquisition or trust surrender is not dutiable transaction 73
Division 3 — Corporate trustees
63. Terms used 74
64. References to trustee of discretionary trust holding property 74
65. References to corporate trustee 75
66. When corporate trustee holds indirect interest in dutiable property 75
Subdivision 2 — Disposition of shares in a corporate trustee
67. Share disposition taken to be agreement for transfer of trust property 75
68. Transaction referred to in s. 67, dutiable value of 76
69. Person liable to pay duty on disposition of share 76
Division 4 — Partnerships
70. Term used: dutiable property 77
71. References to partnership or trust holding property 77
72. References to partnership acquisition 77
73. When partnership holds indirect interest in property 78
74. References to partner’s partnership interest 78
Subdivision 2 — Acquiring partnership interests
75. When person acquires partnership interest 78
76. Partnership acquisition, dutiable value of 79
77. Partnership interest, value of for s. 76(b) 80
78. Dutiable value of transfer of dutiable property to retiring partner 82
78A. Certain retained property taken to be transferred to retiring partner 83
Division 5 — Western Australian business assets
79. Terms used 84
Subdivision 2 — Particular transactions involving business assets
80. Some transactions involving business licences to be taken to be agreements for transfer 88
81. Transactions for particular WA business assets that are not dutiable transactions 88
Subdivision 3 — Dutiable value of dutiable transactions for business assets
82. Dutiable transaction for business asset, dutiable value of 89
83. Certain business licences required by Cwlth law, dutiable value of for s. 82(a) 90
84. Business licences required by WA law, dutiable value of for s. 82(b) 90
85. Dutiable value of business asset where principal place of business is in WA 91
86. Dutiable value of business asset where principal place of business is out of WA 91
Division 6 — Conditional agreements
87. References to conditional agreement 92
88A. General conditional agreements, no duty on if terminated on relevant grounds 96
88. References to farming land conditional agreement 97
89. References to mining tenement conditional agreement 97
90. References to issue of title conditional agreement 97
91. References to subdivision conditional agreement 98
Division 7 — Rights relating to fixed infrastructure
91A. Terms used 98
91B. Some transactions involving fixed infrastructure statutory licences to be taken to be agreements for transfer 100
91C. Which transactions as to fixed infrastructure access rights and fixed infrastructure statutory licences are dutiable 100
91D. Dutiable value of fixed infrastructure statutory licences 102