Income Tax Assessment Act 1997
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Hide history noteSECTION 54-35 Payments during the guarantee period on the death of the injured person 54-35(1)
This section applies if the *annuity instrument provides for payments to be made to the *injured person during any part of the period ending 10 years after the *date of the settlement or order (whether the *annuity is expressed to be for the life of the person or for a period of years).
54-35(2)
The *annuity instrument may specify a period (the guarantee period ) of up to 10 years after the *date of the settlement or order, during which, if the *injured person dies, the payments (the remaining payments ) for the remainder of the guarantee period that would have been paid to the injured person are to be paid instead to:
(a) the injured person ' s estate; or
(b) a reversionary beneficiary.
Note:
For tax exemptions in this situation, see sections 54-65 and 54-70.
54-35(3)
If the *annuity instrument provides for the remaining payments to be made to a reversionary beneficiary, the instrument must:
(a) name the beneficiary; and
(b) allow the beneficiary to choose either:
(i) to be paid the amounts of the remaining payments when the injured person would have received them; or
(ii) to commute those payments into a lump sum worked out under subsection (5).
54-35(4)
The *injured person ' s estate may only be paid the lump sum worked out under subsection (5) (and not the periodic payments).
54-35(5)
The amount of the lump sum under subparagraph (3)(b)(ii) or subsection (4) is the *policy termination value of the *life insurance policy that is the *annuity instrument, as calculated by an *actuary as at the date of the injured person ' s death. In making this calculation, the following are to be disregarded:
(a) any payments of the annuity due to be made after the end of the guarantee period;
(b) any *structured settlement lump sums that are also provided for by that policy.
54-35(6)
In this section:
pay to a person
includes pay to the trustee of a trust of which the person is the beneficiary.
pay to the injured person
'
s estate
includes pay to the trustee of a trust established by the *injured person
'
s will.
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