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# Are court-ordered transfers of real estate a designated service?

## No, transfers made pursuant to a court order fall outside because the transfer is carried out under judicial authority.

Where a transfer of real estate is **made pursuant to or as a result of a court order**, it falls outside the designated services in Table 6, item 1 of the AML/CTF Act. The court-order exemption applies because the transfer is being carried out under judicial authority, not as a discretionary commercial transaction between the parties.

Common scenarios that fall within the exemption:

- Property settlements under Binding Financial Arrangements under **Family Court orders** (post-divorce orders to transfer the matrimonial home).
- Transfers under a **Grant of Probate or Letters of Administration** as part of estate distribution.
- Transfers pursuant to court orders in bankruptcy, insolvency, or trust restructuring.
- Transfers pursuant to a binding consent order to settle litigation.

What the exemption **doesn't** cover:

- The conveyancing work to **transfer of real estate** out of the estate (e.g. conveying property to a beneficiary) - that conveyancing work is a designated service under Table 6, item 1.
- Transactions where the court order is **incidental** rather than the operative trigger - for example, a sale where the parties happen to mention a court process but the sale itself proceeds on commercial terms.

AUSTRAC has given the worked example: a lawyer drafting a **consent order** after mediation, including provisions for a real estate transfer, is not providing a designated service through the consent-order drafting (it only influences a possible future conveyance) - but the conveyancer who later executes the transfer is captured.

See AUSTRAC's [Professional designated services](https://www.austrac.gov.au/new-austrac/designated-services-newly-regulated-entities/professional-designated-services) page.

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