Requirement for Transfer to Eligible Descendant

Eligible descendant must have had active involvement

The eligible descendant that the sugarcane farm was transferred to must have been actively involved with a sugarcane farm that is transferred, over the last three years.    

The eligibility criteria for transfer to descendant

Once the active involvement is established, it is necessary to satisfy other RASF eligibility criteria included in the table below.

If the sugarcane farmer transfers the sugarcane farm as a gift to...

Then the sugarcane farmer...

an eligible descendant    

VEA →

Requirement for qualifying sugarcane farmer

Section 49Q(1) VEA

Requirement for former partner

Section 49Q(2) VEA

VEA → (go back)

meets the first criterion that allows them to participate in RASF    

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Eligibility criteria for participation in RASF

Section 5.10.2

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multiple eligible descendants    

VEA →

Requirement for qualifying sugarcane farmer

Section 49Q(1) VEA

Requirement for former partner

Section 49Q(2) VEA

VEA → (go back)

meets the first criterion that allows them to participate in RASF    

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Eligibility criteria for participation in RASF

Section 5.10.2

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multiple descendants – some eligible, some ineligible

is not eligible to participate in RASF

a trust, where the trustee is an eligible descendant, or an eligible descendant and their partner

meets the first criterion that allows them to participate in RASF    

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Eligibility criteria for participation in RASF

Section 5.10.2

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a trust where the trustee is not an eligible descendant

is not eligible to participate in RASF

a company    

is not eligible to participate in RASF.


Source URL: https://clik.dva.gov.au/compensation-and-support-policy-library/part-5-income-support-allowances-and-benefits/510-retirement-assistance-sugarcane-farmers-scheme-rasf/5103-requirements-applicable-sugarcane-farm-transfer/requirement-transfer-eligible-descendant