Section 21D — Property (Relationships) Act 1976: Subject matter of agreement

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 1 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 . Sections 21A to 21T were inserted, as from 1 August 2001, by section 21(1) Property (Relationships) Amendment Act 2001 (2001 No 5). See section 21(3) of that Act which states that for the purposes of applying Part 6 of the principal Act during the period beginning on 1 August 2001 and ending with the close of 31 January 2002, all terms used in that Part have the meanings given to them in sections 2 to 2D of the principal Act (as substituted by section 8 ) as if section 8 were in force during that period. See Part 9 of this Act as to the transitional and saving provisions. Subsection (1)(b) and (c) were amended, as from 26 April 2005, by section 3(2) Property (Relationships) Amendment Act 2005 (2005 No 19) by substituting the word “ partner ” for the words “ de facto partner ” wherever they appear. Subsection (1)(b) was amended, as from 26 April 2005, by section 3(3) Property (Relationships) Amendment Act 2005 (2005 No 19) by inserting the words “ , civil union, ” after the word “ marriage ” . Subsection (1)(c) was amended, as from 26 April 2005, by section 3(1) Property (Relationships) Amendment Act 2005 (2005 No 19) by substituting the word “ partners ” for the words “ de facto partners ” .