Duties Act 1997

This section applies if—

the trustee of a unit trust scheme that is a widely held trust redeems any units in the trust, and

the redemption is done for the purpose of re-issuing or re-offering the units for sale, and

as a result of the redemption, the scheme would, but for this section, cease to be a widely held trust because a unit holder, individually or together with any associated person, is entitled to more than 20% of the units in the trust.

For a period of 30 days beginning on and including the day on which the redemption occurs, the trust is taken to continue to be a widely held trust, but only if the trust continues to have not less than 300 unit holders none of whom, individually or together with any associated person, is entitled to more than 25% of the units of the trust.

If, at the end of that 30-day period, a unit holder, individually or together with any associated person, is entitled to more than 20% of the units in the unit trust scheme—

the trust is taken to have ceased to be a widely held trust from the beginning of that 30-day period (as if subsection (2) had never applied), and

the Chief Commissioner must make an assessment of the duty chargeable under this Act as if the unit trust scheme had ceased to be a widely held trust scheme at the beginning on that 30-day period, and

a tax default occurs for the purposes of the Taxation Administration Act 1996 if the whole of any duty assessed under paragraph (b) is not paid to the Chief Commissioner within 3 months after the assessment.