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Introduction
The Cleardocs Service ("the Service") is provided to you by Thomson Reuters. If you use the Service in any
way, you will do so on the basis of the disclaimers on the relevant pages that you use to access the Service
and the then current version of these Terms and Conditions ("Terms"). By using the Service in any way, you
accept these Terms, so please read them carefully. If you accept them, you may use the Service, including to
order a document or an ancillary service. If you reject them, you must not use the Service. When you place
your order for any document or ancillary service; you agree that you accept the version of these Terms that
apply at the time of order.
These Terms and our Privacy Statement referenced below, also provide important
information about how we manage Personal Information disclosed by you to us. Please
read these provisions carefully and ensure that you can comply before making any
disclosures of such information.
Licence and fees
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Service on the condition that you accept these Terms and pay our fees in the way required. The licence is
not exclusive and is not transferable. The licence begins on the day you use the Service and ends in
accordance with these Terms (see below).
Thomson Reuters acknowledgements
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it has taken all reasonable steps to engage an appropriately qualified professional adviser both to
prepare the master documents, to ensure that they are accurate and appropriate for the type of
document or related services that you order, and to provide all information, commentary, advice and
other documents (including sample letters), subject to these Terms;
all your personal and billing information that is identifiable to you will be kept confidential and
will be protected by security identification particulars. We will not disclose that information (in
a way that makes the information identifiable to you) to anyone else without your consent unless
required to do so by law; and
the documents you order through the Service will, if relevant, be delivered electronically to you on
the earlier of when you download them or when you click to have us send them to you by email to the
email address you have nominated. If you order our printing, binding, and courier delivery service,
then the package should be delivered as set out on this page
https://www.cleardocs.com/resources-printing-binding-courier-delivery.html.
Consumer Law
These Terms do not, and do not purport to, restrict or modify or have the effect of excluding, restricting
or modifying any laws, rights or remedies imposed and required to be binding by statute or law, including
the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth).
Privacy
Purpose of Collection, Usage, Storage and Disclosure You acknowledge that Personal Information you provide may be collected, used, stored and disclosed by us for a variety
of purposes including:
to comply with our Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Counter Terrorism Financing
(CTF) obligations under applicable AML and CTF laws, including the Anti-Money
Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Act 2006 (AML/CTF Act);
to supply the Service;
to keep our records up to date, to administer your account (where applicable) and
to enforce these Terms;
to monitor use of the Service for the purposes of further development and to ensure the
Service meets your needs and interests;
for marketing purposes which may include disclosure of your information to other members of
the global Thomson Reuters group of companies; and
other purposes as described in our Privacy Statement.
Privacy Statement
A copy of our Privacy Statement can be viewed at Thomson Reuters
Privacy Statement. It tells you more about the types of organisations to which we usually
disclose Personal Information. We will comply with our Privacy Statement, the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (Privacy Act) and other relevant
legislation in relation to such Personal Information.
AML/CTF Information Collected Solely for the purposes of compliance with our AML
and CTF obligations, we may collect the following information (AML/CTF Information):
identification and contact details, such as full name, date of birth, residential
address, email, phone number, nationality, and government-issued identifiers;
photographs or video for verification;
source-of-funds and source-of-wealth information;
information about your transactions with us;
screening and identity verification results provided to us by third-party service
providers; and
where required, information about politically exposed person status and sanctions
screening results.
AML/CTF Purposes: We only collect AML/CTF Information to comply with our legal and
regulatory obligations as follows:
to verify identity;
to conduct due diligence, screening against sanctions and watchlists, transaction monitoring, risk assessments, compliance and ongoing investigation and reporting;
to detect, investigate and prevent fraud, financial crime and misuse of the Service; and
to respond to lawful requests from regulators and law enforcement.
Failure to Disclose Information If you do not provide requested information, we may
not be able to verify your identity or provide you with the Services if prohibited under
applicable AML/CTF laws.
Third Party Information you disclose to us
You warrant that if you disclose Personal Information or Sensitive Information
about another individual to us, you have and will ensure that that individual:
is aware that you have disclosed such information and the reason for such disclosure;
has provided their explicit written consent to such disclosure; and
of the details these Terms that apply to AML/CTF Information disclosed.
You are responsible for ensuring that if a third party is required to disclose Personal
Information to us for the purposes of these Terms on your behalf or at your request,
such disclosure by the third party complies with the Privacy Act.
Where a Reliance Arrangement is in place (as detailed in clause 12 of these Terms);
you further warrant that: (a) you have conducted, and will continue to conduct
Know Your Customer or Know Your Business (KYC/KYB) procedures in respect of
each client on whose behalf you use the Service (End Client) in compliance with
your AML/CTF obligations; (b) the KYC/KYB information and records you provide to
us is accurate, complete and up to date; (c) you have obtained all necessary
consents from End Clients to disclose their Personal Information to us for the
purposes of our AML/CTF obligations and these Terms; and (d) you will inform us
promptly of any matter that may affect the accuracy or completeness of any
KYC/KYB information previously provided.
AML/CTF Reliance - Professional Customers
Reliance Arrangements - Professional Customers: This clause applies where
you are a Professional Customer (that is, a reporting entity under the AML/CTF Act,
such as an accountant, lawyer or tax agent) using the Service on behalf of your End
Client. Where we enter into a written reliance agreement or arrangement with you
(a Reliance Arrangement) in accordance with section 37A of the AML/CTF Act, we
may rely on customer identification information (KYC/KYB) collected and verified
by you in respect of your End Clients, in partial discharge of our obligations under
the AML/CTF Act in relation to those End Clients. Any such Reliance Arrangement
will be subject to the conditions set out in these Terms and the applicable written
agreement.
Eligibility for Reliance: you acknowledge that we may only enter into a Reliance
Arrangement with you if you are, and remain throughout the term of the
arrangement:
enrolled as a reporting entity with AUSTRAC under the AML/CTF Act and
compliant with your obligations under that Act; or
a foreign entity regulated under laws of a foreign country that give effect
to the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) Recommendations relating to
customer due diligence and record-keeping.
Your Obligations under a Reliance Arrangement: Where a Reliance Arrangement
is in place between you and us, you agree that:
you will, before we commence providing a designated service to you in
connection with an End Client, provide us with all KYC/KYB information
you have collected and verified in respect of that End Client, including: (i)
information relating to the identity of the End Client, any beneficial owner
of the End Client, and any person acting on behalf of the End Client; and
(ii) the money laundering and terrorism financing (ML/TF) risk rating of
the End Client and all KYC/KYB information appropriate to that risk
rating;
you will, immediately upon our request (or as soon as practicable
following such request), provide us with copies of all data, documents
and records used by you to verify the identity of any End Client, including
records of the customer identification procedures carried out by you;
you have in place, and will maintain, adequate AML/CTF measures,
systems and controls to comply with your own AML/CTF obligations,
including appropriate record-keeping, customer due diligence (CDD)
procedures covering the End Client and, where applicable, all
shareholders, directors and beneficial owners associated with any
company or trust established through the Service;
you will promptly notify us in writing if you become aware of any material
change to your AML/CTF compliance status, including any adverse
regulatory finding, disciplinary action, significant change in your ML/TF
risk profile, change in your ownership or control, or any circumstance
that may affect your eligibility as a reporting entity; and
you will cooperate with our periodic assessments of the Reliance
Arrangement (which we will conduct at least every two years, or earlier if
a significant change occurs), including by completing any questionnaire
or providing any information we reasonably request to enable us to
assess whether the arrangement continues to meet the requirements of
the AML/CTF Act and AML/CTF Rules.
Suspension or Termination of Reliance: We may suspend or terminate a Reliance
Arrangement immediately and without notice if: (i) you cease to be an eligible
reporting entity or equivalent foreign regulated entity; (ii) we no longer have
reasonable grounds to believe that you are meeting your AML/CTF obligations; (iii)
we are unable to obtain KYC/KYB information or verification records from you as
required; or (iv) we determine, in our reasonable opinion, that continued reliance
would not be consistent with our AML/CTF obligations or AUSTRAC guidance. Upon
suspension or termination, you must continue to co-operate with us to enable us
to satisfy our own AML/CTF obligations in relation to any End Clients in respect of
whom we were previously relying on your KYC/KYB procedures.
Sharing Information with Third Parties In order to provide the services, comply with
these Terms and our legal and regulatory obligations, we may share your information
with:
identity verification and screening service providers;
our professional advisers and auditors
regulators, government agencies and law enforcement where required or
authorized by law, including the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis
Centre (AUSTRAC); and
related entities and service providers who help us deliver our services.
Storage, Transfer and Disclosure To the extent required to provide access to, maintain
and support the Service; where we disclose, store or transfer information outside of
Australia, we take reasonable steps to ensure the recipient protects such information in
accordance with applicable laws including the Privacy Act and the AML/CTF Act.
Security of Information We apply administrative, technical and physical safeguards
designed to protect information you disclose from unauthorized access, alteration,
disclosure or destruction.
Retention and Deletion of Information We keep your information for as long as
needed to meet legal, regulatory, and business record-keeping requirements, as
provided in the Thomson Reuters Privacy Statement. To this end, you acknowledge and
understand that:
while the Service is used on a transactional basis and can involve intermittent use,
we will not retain the Personal Information or Sensitive Information you upload to
the Service indefinitely;
if you are not actively using your account on a regular basis, you should ask us to
delete any such information that you have uploaded to the Service;
if we are required to retain any Personal Information by law:
you warrant that you have taken all steps to ensure that we are permitted
to do so; and
on reasonable notice, and the payment of a reasonable charge, we will
make such information available for inspection by you and your auditors;
the Service is not a document repository and it is your responsibility to save copies
of all documents and other information generated or entered via the Service in your
own document repository; and
we may periodically delete Personal Information or Sensitive Information you have
uploaded to the Service and/or your account if there is no activity on the account
after providing written notice to you that we intend to delete the relevant
information and/or account.
Access to Information You Disclose Subject to applicable law, you are entitled to
certain rights with respect to the Personal Information you disclose, as provided in the
Thomson Reuters Privacy Statement. In some cases, we may refuse a request where
we are permitted or required to do so by law, including where disclosure would impact
our AML/CTF obligations.
Limits on your use of the Service
Thomson Reuters agrees that you will have a licence to use the documents that you order when using the
Service.
In relation to your use of the Service and the documents you order, you agree that:
you must not use any part of the documents in connection with creating another document;
you must not use any part of the documents for any purpose except the specific purpose for which
they were ordered;
you must not copy any part of the documents for any purpose except in relation to the transaction
for which they were ordered;
you must not modify the documents in any way after they are sent to you;
you must not interfere with, alter or attempt to copy or reproduce any part of the Service or the
documents that you order while using them;
you must not incorporate any part of the Service in any other program, system or document creation
package;
you must not represent that the documents ordered using the Service were created by your own
resources, or those of a third party (other than our resources or those of anyone else who signs-off
and endorses for us the master documents from which your documents are generated); and
your account and the associated data you upload to the Service will be deleted if your account
remains inactive for a period of time. We will provide you with written notice before we delete your
account.
We do not give legal, tax, accounting, commercial or other professional advice
You agree that:
we cannot, and do not, give you legal, tax, accounting, commercial or other professional advice;
Thomson Reuters is not a professional services firm;
the Service provides information to help you answer the questions and to order a document and that
the information contained in the documents is information only, not advice;
we cannot and do not warrant that a document you decide to order is appropriate or suits your
needs;
we cannot and do not warrant that your use of the Service is appropriate or suits your needs;
the legal, taxation, accounting and commercial effects of a document vary and a document's
suitability will therefore vary according to particular circumstances;
only you know the purpose for which you intend to apply a document that you order and that we are
not responsible for the choice you make regarding the document that you order;
you must consult with a lawyer, taxation adviser, accountant, or commercial or other appropriately
qualified professional adviser (not Thomson Reuters) for advice concerning the suitability of a
document that you order using the Service;
the master documents are general only and prepared by the person named as the author on the relevant
page of our website (not Thomson Reuters) and that Thomson Reuters does not endorse and disclaims
responsibility for them;
Unless expressly stated otherwise, Thomson Reuters does not provide the information, commentary,
advice and other documents (including sample letters) which appear on our website. Instead, all of
that material is provided by the person named as the author on the relevant page of our website —
Thomson Reuters does not endorse that information, commentary or advice;
Thomson Reuters does not retain copies of documents generated using the Service. Whilst you may
regenerate a copy of a document previously generated by using information you have previously
uploaded in using the Service, Thomson Reuters does not warrant that an exact copy of the original
document will and is not responsible for any errors or differences between the originally generated
document and a subsequent version you elect to generate using the data previously uploaded;
Thomson Reuters disclaims responsibility for the information, commentary, advice and other documents
(including sample letters) referred to in these Terms; and
Thomson Reuters is not aware of any reason to doubt the accuracy or the quality of the work of any
author of the master documents and associated information referred to in these Terms for any of our
documents. Even so, Thomson Reuters is not a professional adviser and does not endorse that work.
Thomson Reuters' only responsibility is to engage a person with the relevant expertise, to draft the
relevant document which it does on the basis that you will seek appropriate advice in making use of
that document in your particular circumstances.
The document you order depends on your answers
You agree that:
certain information and particular clauses from the master documents are included in the documents
you order as a result of the answers you provide to questions you answer when using the Service;
certain information is included in the documents that you order as a result of the answers you
provide to questions you answer when using the Service;
you are fully and solely responsible for the information included as a result of the answers you
give to the questions; and
we are not responsible for any mistake that you make in understanding the questions or how to answer
them.
Accuracy of information provided
You warrant that all of the information which you provide to Thomson Reuters, including particulars as to
your personal and contact details or details of other persons, is accurate and correct and that you have
fully and accurately disclosed your identity.
We are not responsible for your mistakes or personal and sensitive information you upload to the Service —
you indemnify us
Except for any cost, loss, liability or damage directly caused or contributed to by Thomson Reuters, you
agree that you indemnify us in relation to any cost, loss, liability or damage that any of you, your client,
or a third party suffers:
because the document that you order is not suitable for its intended purpose or does not suit the
relevant circumstances;
because you fail to obtain formal advice from an appropriately qualified professional adviser
concerning whether the document you choose is suitable for its intended purpose or is suitable for
particular circumstances;
because of the answers you provide to questions asked of you when using the Service;
because you do not answer all questions completely and accurately;
because you modify the documents after they are provided to you by us;
because you fail to delete or ask us to delete Personal or Sensitive Information from the Service
that you have uploaded to the Service on behalf of a client of yours where you no longer have a
legitimate reason to retain this information on the Service; or
because you breach these Terms in some other way.
You agree that you continually indemnify us against any cost, loss, liability, or damage that we incur as a
result of your use of the Service except for any cost, loss, liability or damage directly caused or
contributed to by Thomson Reuters.
Our partners
Thomson Reuters may promote to you, or refer you to, products or services of a third party (Partner).
A Partner may (but will not necessarily) hold an Australian Financial Services Licence under the
Corporations Act (Cth), depending on the nature of products or services the Partner offers. A Partner may
from time to time pay fees to Thomson Reuters in return for this promotion or referral. The fee may depend
on whether you agree to obtain products or services from the Partner.
A Partner may provide products or services that are complementary to the Service — for example, in relation
to a cash management account, trademark products or actuarial products. You are not compelled to acquire
those products or services from the Partner. Regardless of whether or not you acquire those products or
services from the Partner, Thomson Reuters will still provide our Service to you to the extent that we can
without those complementary services — for example, by allowing you to use our website, interface and user
system to register as a customer and to record your answers and by storing your answers and sending you
newsletter updates, etc.
When you use a Partner's complementary products and services:
Thomson Reuters is not responsible for those products and services;
Thomson Reuters provides access to those products and services for convenience only and does not
endorse the Partner or the products and services available from that Partner;
you access those products and services at your own risk;
it is for you to decide whether you will, or should, rely on the Partner's products and services;
and
you agree with Thomson Reuters that you acknowledge the disclaimers made by that Partner and that
you will comply with any separate Terms which the Partner applies, and requires you to consent to,
in respect of those products and services.
When you use a Partner's website, or products and services available from that website:
Thomson Reuters is not responsible for any information or hyperlinks contained on that website;
Thomson Reuters provides access to that website for convenience only and does not endorse the
Partner, the Partner's website or the products and services available from that website;
you access that website, and products and services available from that website, at your own risk;
it is for you to decide whether you will, or should, rely on the Partner's website, or products and
services available from that website; and
you agree with Thomson Reuters that you acknowledge the disclaimers that appear on those websites
and that you will comply with the terms that you agree to at the time you use the products and
services available from those websites.
Our website and other websites
You agree that:
each time you order a document from us, you agree to the then current version of these Terms. When
you create an account or place your order, we will provide a link to, or show you the current
version of these Terms and you must use the indicated method to evidence your acceptance of that
version of the Terms;
we do not warrant the accuracy or appropriateness of the contents of our website;
the information and commentary on our website is general only and is prepared by the person named as
the author on the relevant page of our website (not Thomson Reuters, unless expressly stated
otherwise) and that Thomson Reuters does not endorse it and disclaims responsibility for it;
our website may contain hyperlinks and pointers to other websites and that we are not responsible
for any information or other hyperlinks accessible via such websites;
we provide the hyperlinks and pointers to you simply for your convenience and we are not endorsing
any of them;
you access these other websites you do so at your own risk; and
it is for you to decide whether these other websites should be relied on.
Our liability is limited
You agree that if we are prohibited by law from excluding all implied warranties and conditions, then our
liability will be limited to, at our option:
replacing the document you used the Service to order;
supply of some equivalent document;
amendment of the document; or
the payment of the cost of such replacement, supply or amendment.
You agree that:
to the extent that we are not prohibited by law from limiting our liability, then our liability is
limited in the same manner as provided under clause 31 , including in respect of any liability that
arises as a consequence of our negligence;
subject to law including the Australian Consumer Law, our liability to you for any matter related to
the subject matter of these Terms will not include any special, indirect, incidental or
consequential damages or loss of profits and will not exceed the cost to you for the particular
transaction which has caused you the loss or damage; and
subject to law including the Australian Consumer Law, we do not warrant that the operation of the
Service will be uninterrupted or that the Service is virus free or error free.
Our intellectual property is not diminished
You agree that:
we or our licensors remain the owner of all the intellectual property and know-how that resides in
the documents and the Service;
you are licensed to use the Service for the sole purpose of ordering documents; and
you get no property right whatsoever in relation to the Service, and no ownership in the copyright
of the documents that you order.
Recovering revenue lost through misuse or breach
If we discover that we have lost revenue through your breach of these Terms, then you agree that we may
recover from you each of the following:
the revenue we have lost;
our costs of discovering our loss and the extent of it;
our costs of recovering the revenue; and
default interest on any amount owing under this clause.
Also, if we can show that we have lost revenue through your breach of these Terms, then you agree that we
have the right to audit your operations (at your reasonable cost) to determine the extent of our loss.
Clauses 34 and 35 do not limit in any way the recovery by Thomson Reuters of all other amounts from you
which are recoverable at law in respect of any breach of these Terms by you.
The licence ends when you have ordered your document
You agree that:
the licence to you is limited to the creation of the documents for which you have paid and that once
those documents have been ordered, the licence ends;
your licence will also end if you breach any material obligations contained in these Terms; and
if you breach any material obligation contained in these Terms, then we may deny you any further
access to the Service.
How you pay us
Our standard arrangement is for you to pay us online by credit card through our designated bank's online
payment system. Our system will transfer you to that site when you click the relevant button. Our bank's
system should return you to the relevant page on our website at the relevant time.
However, if you are a high-volume user, then we may — at our absolute discretion — agree to allow you to pay
on invoice (instead of by credit card). If we do agree to that, then the following rules apply:
At the time you order, we electronically provide you with a tax invoice for our fees. You can
download the invoice from our website or click to have us email it to you at the email address you
provide. You must pay all Thomson Reuters' fees (including printing and binding fees, and company
seal fees etc.) within 7 days after you order.
At the time you place an order through our website to apply for any government registration etc.
(for example, a company registration application or a trademark application), we electronically
provide you with our invoice for any government fees etc. that we pay (or arrange to be paid) on
your behalf as part of lodging your application. You can download the invoice from our website or
click to have us email it to you at the email address you provide. You must pay us the amount of
those government fees etc. within 24 hours after you order.
If you do not pay on time, then we may — at our absolute discretion, and without giving you notice —
do any one or more of the following:
end the arrangement by which you pay on invoice (so that you must pay by credit card);
use amounts you pay us to pay-off any amount you owe at our choice — for example, we may
first pay-off any amount you owe us in respect of government fees we have paid;
set our system so that you no longer have access to document packages you have ordered from
us in the past (regardless of whether you have paid for them);
charge default interest on any amount you owe us.
Refunds, returns, exchanges
Our liability to refund, return or exchange is limited to the circumstances set out in these Terms and is
otherwise entirely at our discretion. In order to expeditiously process your claim for a refund, return or
an exchange, we request that you send all claims to the following email support@cleardocs.com and include:
the intended purpose to which the documents were to be applied;
the identity and contact details of the person for whom you purchased the document (we may contact
that person to discuss, and request copies of, the documents you have provided to them);
the reasons that you want a return, a refund, or an exchange;
copies of the materials or documents you have provided to that person in place of the Cleardocs
document in relation to which you now want a refund, a return, or an exchange; and
any other information or materials we ask for that we believe is relevant to our decision.
Severability
Any provision of these Terms that is prohibited or unenforceable in any jurisdiction is ineffective as to
that jurisdiction to the extent of the prohibition or unenforceability. That does not invalidate the
remaining provisions of these Terms nor affect the validity or enforceability of that provision in any other
jurisdiction.
Jurisdiction
These Terms are governed by and are to be read and interpreted according to the laws of New South Wales.
Each of Thomson Reuters and you irrevocably and unconditionally submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the
courts in that jurisdiction. You may not argue, on the basis of the doctrine of forum non conveniens or any
other basis, that the courts of that jurisdiction should not exercise jurisdiction.
Definitions and interpretation
In these Terms:
'Thomson Reuters' means Thomson Reuters (Professional) Australia Limited ABN 64 058 914 668, its
agents, officers, successors, authors, licensors and advisers and 'we', 'our' and 'us' have a
corresponding meaning;
'the Service' includes the Cleardocs website, the interface, user system, and document merging
engine and (where applicable), the menu of legal clauses that is used to generate documents you
order, and the services which we provide to you which are ancillary to these services, including
telephone and email helplines;
'default interest' means interest on amounts owing calculated at the rate set from time to time
under section 22 of the Taxation Administration Act 1996 (NSW);
'document' means a document you order which is generated by the Service;
'lawyer' means an Australian legal practitioner as defined under section 6(1) of the Legal
Profession Uniform Law (NSW) or under any corresponding law in any other jurisdiction;
'Personal Information' has the meaning given to that term in the Privacy Act.
'Privacy Act' means the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth).
'master documents' means the master documents on which the documents you order are based, being the
full library of possible text that could be included in your document depending on the information
you provide when using the Service;
'professional adviser' means a lawyer concerning whether a document or the Service is appropriate or
suits your needs or its legal and taxation implications, a registered tax agent concerning a
document's taxation, accounting and/or commercial implications or a licensed financial planner
concerning a document's financial planning implications or such other professional adviser as is
appropriate or suits your needs concerning a document's legal, taxation, accounting and commercial
implications;
'you' means the person using the Service, including a person using the Service as agent of another
person in which case 'you' means the agent or the agent's principal, or both the agent and the
agent's principal;
the singular includes the plural and vice versa; and
a reference to currency is a reference to Australian dollars.
You agree that each of these definitions has the same meaning wherever they appear on our website.
Discretionary Trust - deed of variation (excluding foreign persons)
Trusts document
Discretionary Trust - deed of variation (excluding foreign persons)
Use Cleardocs to create a deed of variation to a discretionary trust to prevent distributions to ‘foreign persons’. Upon signing the deed of variation and the minutes, you will be excluding any person, (including any named beneficiary) who is or who at any relevant time is, a ‘foreign person’, from receiving distributions of income and/or capital from the trust.
If your discretionary trust already contains a named beneficiary who is a ‘foreign person’, this product will prohibit distributions to that person.
There are important matters to be considered before using this product. You must obtain legal advice and will need to ensure that you have read and understood the related FALQs.
Cleardocs also has these trust set up packages available:
Family Trust Trustee bundle — a comprehensive and seamless workflow solution for a discretionary (family) trust set up with a corporate trustee
Before commencing with ordering this Deed Of Variation (Excluding Foreign Persons), you will also be presented with a series of questions which will assist in identifying if this type of Deed of Variation is suitable for your requirements. If your answers to the questionnaire suggest that this product may not be the most suitable option, you will be advised to contact the Cleardocs Help Desk to discuss the type of Deed of Variation you require.
30 minutes
The master documents are written in plain
language and are signed-off by our lawyers at Maddocks.
The trust does not require an underlying Cleardocs deed
Pre-population of trust details from earlier Cleardocs orders - saving you typing
Easy to use question interface
Extensive online help and local phone support
Product Information
What documents are included in the Cleardocs package?
The Cleardocs package includes:
the deed of variation to discretionary trust deed;
related minutes of the trustee(s); and
an Establishment Kit explaining what to do next.
Cleardocs deed not required
You can use this product even if your existing discretionary trust does not have a Cleardocs deed.
Seek legal advice
The Discretionary Trust – deed of variation (excluding foreign persons) information set out here should be considered general in nature, and in no way interpreted as legal advice. You must always seek your own independent legal, accounting and financial advice about your particular situation. The summary on this page is for information purposes only.
Frequently Asked Legal Questions
Cleardocs is not a law firm. So as with all the legal material on this site,
the answers to these "frequently asked legal questions" are provided by the law firm
Maddocks. Cleardocs does not endorse those answers.
Set up an exclusive discretionary (family) trust with income and capital distribution limits.
You can choose to exclude foreign persons and non lineal descendants as beneficiaries.
The legal information and commentary on this site is general
only. Documents ordered through Cleardocs affect the user's
legal rights and liabilities. To assess their suitability for
the user, legal accounting and financial advice must be
obtained.
how to use cleardocs
A simple and fast process:
Register as a User - it's free;
Select your required document;
Answer the online interface questions;
i. If you are unable to complete the question
interface, you can save the document and return to
it later.
ii. We provide help-text beside many questions. To
see the help-text, simply click the beside the question.
Common questions and answers relating to our
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