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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2023-09-28T11:00:00+09:30" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)</sessionName>
  <parliamentNum>55</parliamentNum>
  <sessionNum>1</sessionNum>
  <parliamentName>Parliament of South Australia</parliamentName>
  <house>Legislative Council</house>
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  <dateModified time="2023-10-18T12:29:44+10:30" />
  <proceeding>
    <name>Bills</name>
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      <heading>Bills</heading>
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    <subject>
      <name>Succession Bill</name>
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        <bill id="r5153" referenceid="73aab58ae3bb4e10a1688d68ed936cfd">
          <name>Succession Bill</name>
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        <heading>Succession Bill</heading>
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      <subproceeding>
        <name>Final Stages</name>
        <text id="20230928442b245ac9a14cfca0001171">
          <heading>Final Stages</heading>
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        <text id="20230928442b245ac9a14cfca0001172">The House of Assembly agreed to the bill with the amendments indicated by the following schedule, to which amendments the House of Assembly desires the concurrence of the Legislative Council:</text>
        <text id="20230928442b245ac9a14cfca0001173">
          <inserted>No 1. Clause 51, page 24, lines 20 and 21 [clause 51(3)]—Delete subclause (3) and substitute:</inserted>
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          <item sublevel="2">
            <inserted>(3)&amp;#x9;A person is only eligible—</inserted>
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        <text id="20230928442b245ac9a14cfca0001175">
          <item sublevel="3">
            <inserted>(a)&amp;#x9;for appointment as the Registrar or acting Registrar if the person is a legal practitioner of at least 5 years standing; or</inserted>
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        <text id="20230928442b245ac9a14cfca0001176">
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            <inserted>(b)&amp;#x9;for appointment as a deputy if the person is a legal practitioner.</inserted>
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        <text id="20230928442b245ac9a14cfca0001177">
          <inserted>No 2. Schedule 2, page 70, after line 20—After Part 4 insert:</inserted>
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        <text id="20230928442b245ac9a14cfca0001178">
          <item sublevel="2">
            <inserted>Part 4A—Amendment of <term>Stamp Duties Act 1923</term></inserted>
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          <item sublevel="2">
            <inserted>8A—Amendment of section 71CB—Exemption from duty in respect of certain transfers between spouses etc or former spouses etc</inserted>
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            <inserted>(1)&amp;#x9;Section 71CB—after subsection (2) insert:</inserted>
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            <inserted>(2a)&amp;#x9;An instrument executed after the commencement of this subsection is exempt from stamp duty if the sole effect of the instrument is to transfer to the spouse or domestic partner of a deceased person an interest in a dwelling acquired by the spouse or domestic partner from the deceased's estate in consequence of an election made by the spouse or domestic partner under section 102 of the <term>Succession Act 2022</term>.</inserted>
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        <text id="20230928442b245ac9a14cfca0001182">
          <item sublevel="2">
            <inserted>(2)&amp;#x9;Section 71CB(4)—after 'instrument' first occurring insert:</inserted>
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          <item sublevel="3">
            <inserted>described in subsection (2)</inserted>
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        <text id="20230928442b245ac9a14cfca0001184">
          <item sublevel="2">
            <inserted>(3)&amp;#x9;Section 71CB(6)—delete 'This' and substitute:</inserted>
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        <text id="20230928442b245ac9a14cfca0001185">
          <item sublevel="3">
            <inserted>Subject to subsection (2a), this</inserted>
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        <text id="20230928442b245ac9a14cfca0001186">
          <item sublevel="2">
            <inserted>8B—Amendment of Schedule 2—Stamp duties and exemptions</inserted>
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        <text id="20230928442b245ac9a14cfca0001187">
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            <inserted>Schedule 2, Part 2, clause 16—after item 27 insert:</inserted>
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        <text id="20230928442b245ac9a14cfca0001188">
          <item sublevel="3">
            <inserted>27A&amp;#x9;An agreement for the distribution of an intestate estate, or part of an intestate estate, approved by the Supreme Court under section 111 of the <term>Succession Act 2022</term>.</inserted>
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        <text id="20230928442b245ac9a14cfca0001190">At 17:29 the council adjourned until Tuesday 17 October 2023 at 14:15.</text>
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