Stamp Act · 2022 Revised Edition · Part · Estate Duties
72. Aggregation of property to form one estate for purpose of estate duty
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For determining the rate of duty to be paid on any property passing on the death of the deceased, all property so passing in respect of which duty is chargeable shall be aggregated so as to form one estate, and the duty shall be charged at the proper graduated rate on the principal value thereof.
Terms defined in this Act
chargeable
Defined · s 2“chargeable” means, as applied to an instrument executed or first executed after the commencement of this Act, chargeable under this Act, and as applied to any other instrument chargeable under the law in force in Brunei Darussalam when such instrument was executed or, when several persons executed the instrument at different times, first executed;
property
Defined · s 2“property” includes movable and immovable property and any estate in any property movable or immovable and any debt and anything in action and any other right or interest in the nature of property whether in possession or not;
property passing on the death
Defined · s 82“property passing on the death” includes property passing either immediately on the death or after any interval and either originally or contingently, and either originally or by way of substitutive limitation, and the expression “on the death” includes “at a period ascertainable only by reference to the death”;
the deceased
Defined · s 82“the deceased” means a person who died after the commencement of this Act;
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