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SUCCESSION ACT 1981 - SECT 14A
Effect of civil partnership on a will
14A Effect of civil partnership on a will
(1) A will is revoked by the testator entering into a civil partnership.
(2)
However, the following are not revoked by the testator entering into a civil
partnership— (a) a disposition to the person with whom the testator is in a
civil partnership at the time of the testator’s death;
(b) an appointment
as executor, trustee, advisory trustee or guardian of the person with whom the
testator is in a civil partnership at the time of the testator’s death;
(c)
a will, to the extent it exercises a power of appointment, if the property in
relation to which the appointment is exercised would not pass to an executor
under any other will of the testator or to an administrator of any estate of
the testator if the power of appointment were not exercised.
(3) Also— (a)
a will made in contemplation of a civil partnership, whether or not that
contemplation is stated in the will, is not revoked by the registration of the
civil partnership contemplated; and
(b) a will that is stated to be made in
contemplation of a civil partnership generally is not revoked by the
registration of a civil partnership of the testator.
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