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INCOME TAX ASSESSMENT ACT 1997 - SECT 197.37

Exclusion for transfers made in connection with demutualisations of private health insurers

  (1)   Subject to subsection   (2), this Division does not apply to the transferred amount if:

  (a)   the amount is transferred in connection with a demutualisation of a company; and

  (b)   Division   315 (about demutualisations of private health insurers) applies to the demutualisation; and

  (c)   the company (the issuing company ) to whose * share capital account the amount is transferred is either:

  (i)   the demutualising health insurer; or

  (ii)   the company mentioned in subparagraph   315 - 85(1)(a)(iii) issuing shares that are assets covered by section   315 - 85 ( demutualisation assets ).

  (2)   Subsection   (1) does not stop this Division from applying to so much, if any, of the transferred amount as exceeds the sum of the amounts worked out under subsection   (3) for each demutualisation asset that is a share issued:

  (a)   by the issuing company under the demutualisation; and

  (b)   to an entity that is either:

  (i)   covered by section   315 - 90 (about participating policy holders); or

  (ii)   the trustee of a trust covered by Subdivision   315 - C (about the lost policy holders trust).

  (3)   The amount worked out under this subsection for a share is:

  (a)   the * market value of the share on the day it is issued; or

  (b)   if the share is in a company covered by subparagraph   315 - 85(1)(a)(iii) that owns other assets in addition to the shares in the demutualising health insurer--worked out using the method statement in subsection   315 - 210(2).


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