Estate Duty Assessment (No. 2)

No. 138 of 1965

An Act to amend the Estate Duty Assessment Act 1914-1963, as amended by the Estate Duty Assessment Act 1965, in relation to Decimal Currency.

[Assented to 18 December, 1965]

BE it enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—

Short title and citation.

1.—(1.) This Act may be cited as the Estate Duty Assessment Act (No. 2) 1965.

(2.) The Estate Duty Assessment Act 1914–1963, as amended by the Estate Duty Assessment Act 1965, is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

(3.) Section 1 of the Estate Duty Assessment Act 1965 is amended by omitting sub-section (2.).

(4.) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Estate Duty Assessment Act 1914–1965.

Commencement.

2. This Act shall come into operation on the fourteenth day of February, One thousand nine hundred and sixty-six.

Quick succession rebates.

3. Section 8a of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-section (2.) the word “pounds” and inserting in its stead the word “dollars”; and

(b) by omitting from paragraph (b) of sub-section (5.) the word pounds” and inserting in its stead the word “dollars”.