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Transfer Duty Act, 1949 (Act No. 40 of 1949)

14. Declarations to be furnished to Commissioner

 

(1) A return appropriate to the manner of the acquisition of property in any particular case shall be submitted by the parties to the transaction whereby the property has been acquired and, if the Commissioner so directs, also by the agent, auctioneer, broker or other person who acted for or on behalf of either party to the transaction or, if the property has been acquired otherwise than by way of a transaction, by the person who acquired the property.

[Section 14(1) substituted by section 271 of Act No. 28 of 2011]

 

(1A) [Section 14(1A) deleted by section 13(1)(b) of Act No. 8 of 2010]

 

(2) Where no suitable form of declaration has been prescribed by the Commissioner for any particular kind of acquisition of property, he may require from any person concerned in the acquisition a declaration setting forth the material facts of the case and containing such other information as he may consider necessary.

 

(3) An estate agent as contemplated in section 1 of the Estate Agency Affairs Act, 1976 (Act No. 112 of 1976), who is entitled to any remuneration or other payment in respect of services rendered in connection with a transaction in terms of which a person acquired property contemplated in paragraphs (d), (e) or (f) of the definition of "property", must within six months of the date of acquisition of that property submit details of that transaction to the Commissioner in a form and in such manner as prescribed by the Commissioner.

[Section 14(3) substituted by section 13(1)(c) of Act No. 8 of 2010]

 

(4) [Section 14(4) deleted by section 271 of Act No. 28 of 2011]

 

(5) [Section 14(5) deleted by section 13(1)(e) of Act No. 8 of 2010]

 

(6) [Section 14(6) deleted by section 271 of Act No. 28 of 2011)]

 

(7) [Section 14(7) deleted by section 271 of Act No. 28 of 2011]

 

(8) [Section 14(8) deleted by section 271 of Act No. 28 of 2011]