Income Tax Assessment Amendment Regulations 2001 (No. 3) 2001 No. 288
EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
STATUTORY RULES 2001 No. 288
Issued by authority of the Assistant Treasurer
Income Tax Assessment Act 1997
Income Tax Assessment Amendment Regulations 2001 (No. 3)
Section 909-1 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 (the Act) provides that the GovernorGeneral may make regulations for giving effect to the Act.
The purpose of the Regulation is to amend the Income Tax Assessment Regulations 1997 (the Regulations) to list certain funds as prescribed private funds.
Gifts made to prescribed private funds are tax deductible in accordance with item 2 in the table to section 30-15 of the Act. 'Prescribed. private fund' is defined in section 995-1 of the Act to mean a fund that is prescribed by the Regulations for the purposes of the definition but does not include any fund that has been declared by the Treasurer, in writing, not to be a prescribed private fund.
New Regulation 995-1.02 lists the following funds as prescribed private funds for the purposes of section 995-1 of the Act. Each of the funds listed is a prescribed private fund on and from the. date of effect specified in the Regulation. Each fund is established and maintained for the purpose of providing money. property or benefits to a fund, authority or institution that is listed either by name or by type in a table to Subdivision 30-B of the Act.
Name of fund | Date of effect |
Nelson Meers Foundation | 21 June 2001 |
Sargents Foundation Sub-Fund | 21 June 2001 |
The Andersen Foundation | 21 June 2001 |
Brencorp Foundation | 22 June 2001 |
Gandel Foundation | 22 June 2001 |
Gonski Foundation | 22 June 2001 |
Humanity Trust | 22 June 2001 |
Levy Foundation | 22 June 2001 |
The CINS Foundation | 22 June 2001 |
The Cuthbert Foundation | 22 June 2001 |
The F&J Ryan Foundation | 22 June 2001 |
The Joan & Peter Clemenger Trust | 22 June 2001 |
The Parncutt Family Foundation | 22 June 2001 |
The Pratt Family Foundation | 22 June 2001 |
The Rodney & Judith ONeil. Foundation. | 22 June 2001 |
The Sentinel Foundation | 22 June 2001 |
The Charitable Foundation | 25 June 2001 |
The Noble Foundation | 27 June 2001 |
The Sarah and Baillieu Myer Family Foundation | 27 June 2001 |
Wind Over Water Foundation | 27 June 2001 |
The Aranday Foundation | 28 June 2001 |
JB Were & Son Charitable Fund | 28 June 2001 |
The Mill House Foundation | 11 July 2001 |
The sole purpose of the Funds is to provide money, property or benefits to or for eligible charities, or for the establishment of eligible charities, as the Trustee decides.
'Eligible charity' as defined in the Funds' Trust Deed means a fund, authority or institution which is charitable at law and gifts to which are deductible under item 1 in the table to section 30-15 of the Act.
The Regulations commenced on gazettal. Although the amending Regulations have effect from dates earlier than gazettal for each fund, subsection 48(2) of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 is not contravened. Subsection 48(2) prohibits the retrospective operation of regulations which adversely affect the rights of, or impose liabilities upon, a person. The amending Regulations do not adversely affect the rights of, or impose liabilities upon any person. The Regulations are beneficial to the funds concerned and taxpayers making donations to those funds.