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MOOMBA-SYDNEY PIPELINE SYSTEM SALE ACT 1994 - SECT 24

Exemption from certain State and Territory stamp duties

  (1)   No stamp duty is payable under a law of a State or Territory in respect of an exempt matter or anything connected with an exempt matter.

  (2)   An authorised person may, by signed writing, certify that:

  (a)   a specified matter or thing is an exempt matter; or

  (b)   a specified thing was done in connection with a specified exempt matter.

  (3)   In all courts and for all purposes, a certificate under subsection   (2) is evidence of the matter stated in the certificate.

  (4)   A document that appears to be a certificate under subsection   (2) is taken to be such a certificate and to have been properly given unless the contrary is established.

  (5)   In this section:

"exempt matter" means:

  (a)   assets and liabilities ceasing to be assets and liabilities of the Authority and Pacenco under section   12 and becoming assets and liabilities of Newco under that section; or

  (b)   dual destination interests ceasing to be assets of the Authority and Pacenco under section   14 and becoming assets of the Commonwealth and Newco under that section; or

  (c)   Commonwealth - guaranteed debts ceasing to be obligations of the Authority under section   19 and becoming obligations of the Commonwealth under that section; or

  (d)   the operation of this Part   in any other respect.



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