Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

ADMINISTRATION AND PROBATE ACT 1929 - SECT 43A

If—

        (a)     probate of the will of a testator has been granted to a person (in this division called the original executor ) as the sole executor, or as 1 of the executors, of the will of the testator; and

        (b)     the original executor was, immediately before his or her death, the sole, or the last surviving, executor of the will of the testator; and

        (c)     probate of the will of the original executor is granted to the executor, or 1 of the executors, (the succeeding executor ) of the will of the original executor;

the succeeding executor becomes, on the grant of probate of the will of the original executor—

        (d)     the executor of the will of the testator; and

        (e)     the executor of the will of any other testator of whose will the testator was, immediately before his or her death, the executor under the application, or successive applications, of this section.