Australian Capital Territory Current Acts Australian Capital Territory Current Acts(1) Probate of the will, or administration of the estate, of a person may be granted by the Supreme Court if it is satisfied, by direct evidence or by evidence supporting a presumption of death, that the person is, or may be presumed to be, dead.
(2) A grant of probate of the will, or administration of the estate, of a person made on direct evidence of the death of the person or on evidence supporting a presumption of the death of the person is valid even if the person is, after the day the grant was made, found to have been alive on that day.