Western Australian Numbered Acts

STAMP AMENDMENT ACT 2000 (NO. 28 OF 2000) - SECT 5

5 .         Section 75ABA inserted

                After section 75AB the following section is inserted —

“

75ABA.         Power of exemption for transfers by bankruptcy trustee to bankrupt

        (1)         When the Commissioner is satisfied that an instrument is an instrument by which property that vested in a bankruptcy trustee on the bankruptcy of a person is conveyed from the bankruptcy trustee back to that person, the Commissioner may exempt the instrument from duty and the instrument is to be endorsed accordingly.

        (2)         In this section —

        "bankruptcy trustee" means —

            (a)         the Official Trustee in Bankruptcy; or

            (b)         a registered trustee,

                under the Bankruptcy Act 1966 of the Commonwealth.

”.