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title: SIS Reg 13.22C Related Unit Trust
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# SIS Reg 13.22C Related Unit Trust

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### **About Product**

An SMSF cannot hold an investment in a related trust, with the exception of the special purpose SMSF 13.22C Trust.

**► $199.00 (inc GST)** - OR provided under your unlimited membership

► The master document has been signed off by LY Legal and is congruent with Australian law.

### **General Information**

An SMSF cannot hold an investment in a related trust with the exception of the special purpose SMSF 13.22C Trust.

A SMSF 13.22C Trust can be wholly owned by a SMSF and not be an in-house asset where there is no borrowing, no interests in another entity, cannot run a business, no charge on the assets of the company and any lease of property to a related party must be business real property and not residential property.

### **Benefits**

- Easy to understand and complete
- Not an in-house asset
- Can be transferred from a related party who holds shares to a related SMSF
- Cannot run a business
- But watch limitations on what the Fund can and cannot do

### **Frequently Asked Legal Questions**

**How does it differ a normal related party trust?**

If the Trustee of a SMSF holds more than 50% of the equity of a trust, the investment is an in-house asset.  The Trustee will be penalised.  If the trust has in-built restrictions as prescribed by SIS Regulation 13.22C then it is exempted from the in-house assets, even where the SMSF holds all the units in the unit trust.

**Can the Trust be owned by a related trust or party as well as the SMSF?**

A related party can also hold units in the SIS Reg 13.22C Trust if the SMSF does not have the capacity to own the trust outright.  Plus the underlying units may be transferred to the SMSF as a contribution or sale without breaching section 66.

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However in some complex areas such as the insertion of a varied range of client instructions into a Will or other such documents the user must be mindful of the extent to which a document is being drafted by the user rather than merely the administrative task of completing a form where the relevant fields are inserted into the reviewed and signed  legal document provided by LY Legal.

The above advice is born out of numerous cases dating back to Re Sanderson, Ex parte Law Institute of Victoria \[1927\] VLR 394, 397 where the Court held:

*“if a person does a thing usually done by a solicitor, and does it in such a way as to lead to the reasonable inference that he is a solicitor – if he combines professing to be a solicitor with action usually taken by a solicitor – I think he then does act as a solicitor.”*

Likewise in ACCC v Murray (2002) 121 FCR 428, 448 where Murray was building a franchise business that involved the legal writing and drafting of Wills from scratch based on the client’s personal circumstances.  The Court held that this process was legal work.

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**Stamping and Lodgement of Trusts**

The fees and stamping requirements for establishing a trust deed vary throughout Australia, and the duty payable also varies depending on the type of property that is held by the trust. Please contact support - support@lyd.com.au for more information on when stamping is required (in what jurisdictions) and the fees/duties payable. LightYear Group is able to provide this service to you.

Last Reviewed: 11/09/2026

Last Updated: 11/09/2026

 

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