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Exemptions

Exempt Insurance

Exempt insurance includes insurance:

  • covering only property of the Crown in the right of NSW

  • effected by a separate policy for a distinct sum against loss by fire on the tools, implements of work or labour used by mechanics, artificers, handcrafters and labourers

  • taken out by or on behalf of a non-profit organisation having as one of its objects a charitable, benevolent, philanthropic or patriotic purpose

  • taken out by or on behalf of a society or institution having as one of its objects the relief of poverty, promotion of education, defence or other patriotic object, or where it is considered to be charitable

  • covering mortgages or pools of mortgages acquired for the purpose of issuing mortgagebacked securities

  • hospital or medical benefits insurance

  • Workers Compensation

  • Compulsory Third Party for Motor Vehicles;

  • insurance of:

  • redundancy insurance in respect of a housing loan where the sum insured doesn't exceed $124 000

  • reinsurance (being a contract between two parties where one party indemnifies the other against liability or payment under a contract of insurance or reinsurance)

  • an annuity

  • policies of life insurance, being group superannuation investment policies, owned by the trustee of a superannuation plan for the benefit of more than one member of the plan.

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Last updated: 08-Jul-2011
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