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<Text>This section makes provision about determining who has control of a digital asset for the purposes of this Act.</Text>
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<Text>A person has control of a digital asset if the person has the ability to initiate in relation to it—</Text>
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<Text>a transfer transaction within the electronic system giving rise to the asset, or</Text>
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<Text>if the system does not facilitate transfer transactions, a divestiture transaction within the system.</Text>
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<Text>In this section—</Text>
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<Text>“<Term id="term-divestiture-transaction">divestiture transaction</Term>” means a transaction that results in no person being able to initiate any further transaction in relation to the asset,</Text>
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<Text>“<Term id="term-transfer-transaction">transfer transaction</Term>” means a transaction that results in—</Text>
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<Text>the person who initiated the transaction losing the ability to initiate a transfer transaction in relation to the asset, and</Text>
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<Text>another person gaining (directly or indirectly) the ability to initiate a transfer transaction in relation to the asset or some quantity of that type of asset.</Text>
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