Property (Relationships) Act 1976

21D Subject matter of agreement

• (1) An agreement under section 21 or section 21A or section 21B may do all or any of the following:

  • (a) provide that any property, or any class of property, is to be relationship property or is to be separate property:

  • (b) define the share of the relationship property, or of any part of the relationship property, that each spouse or partner is to be entitled to when the marriage, civil union, or de facto relationship ends:

  • (c) define the share of the relationship property, or of any part of the relationship property, that the surviving spouse or partner and the estate of the deceased spouse or partner is to be entitled to on the death of one of the spouses or partners:

  • (d) provide for the calculation of those shares:

  • (e) prescribe the method by which the relationship property, or any part of the relationship property, is to be divided.

  (2) This section does not limit the generality of sections 21 to 21B.

  Section 21D: inserted, on 1 August 2001, by section 21(1) of the Property (Relationships) Amendment Act 2001 (2001 No 5).

  Section 21D(1)(b): amended, on 26 April 2005, by section 3(2) of the Property (Relationships) Amendment Act 2005 (2005 No 19).

  Section 21D(1)(b): amended, on 26 April 2005, by section 3(3) of the Property (Relationships) Amendment Act 2005 (2005 No 19).

  Section 21D(1)(c): amended, on 26 April 2005, by section 3(1) of the Property (Relationships) Amendment Act 2005 (2005 No 19).

  Section 21D(1)(c): amended, on 26 April 2005, by section 3(2) of the Property (Relationships) Amendment Act 2005 (2005 No 19).