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On 25/05/2013, you requested for the version in force on 25/05/2013 incorporating all amendments published on or before 25/05/2013. The closest version currently available is that of 16/09/2008.
REPUBLIC OF SINGAPORE
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE
ACTS SUPPLEMENT
Published by Authority
NO. 16] Friday, September 19 [2008
The following Act was passed by Parliament on 25th August 2008 and assented to by the President on 10th September 2008:—
Estate Duty (Abolition) Act 2008

(No. 13 of 2008)

I assent.

S R NATHAN
President
Date of Commencement: 15th February 2008
An Act to amend the Estate Duty Act (Chapter 96 of the 2005 Revised Edition) to provide for the abolition of estate duty.
Be it enacted by the President with the advice and consent of the Parliament of Singapore, as follows:
Short title and commencement
1.  This Act may be cited as the Estate Duty (Abolition) Act 2008 and shall be deemed to have come into operation on 15th February 2008.
New section 2A
2.  The Estate Duty Act (referred to in this Act as the principal Act) is amended by inserting, immediately after section 2, the following section:
“Application
2A.  This Act shall apply only in relation to persons dying before 15th February 2008.”.
Amendment of section 5
3.  Section 5 of the principal Act is amended by inserting, immediately after the words “28th February 1996” in paragraph (e), the words “and before 15th February 2008”.
Amendment of Fifth Schedule
4.  The Fifth Schedule to the principal Act is amended by inserting, immediately after the words “28TH FEBRUARY 1996” in the Schedule heading, the words “AND BEFORE 15TH FEBRUARY 2008”.