2 made on or after January first, nineteen hundred ninety-seven if: (a) the transfer purports to have been made under the New York Uniform Gifts to Minor Act; or (b) the instrument by which the transfer purports to have been made uses in substance the designation 'as custodian under the Uniform Gifts to Minors Act' or 'as custodian under the Uniform Transfers to Minors Act' of any other state, and the application of this part is necessary to validate the transfer.
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