South Australian Numbered Acts South Australian Numbered Acts66—Rights of executor renouncing, not acting, or not appearing when cited, to cease as if not named in will
If—
(a) a person renounces probate of the will of which the person is appointed executor or 1 of the executors; or
(b) an executor appointed in a will survives the testator but dies without having taken probate; or
(c) an executor named in a will is cited to take probate but does not appear to the citation,
the right of that person or executor in respect of the executorship wholly ceases, and the representation of the testator and the administration of the testator's estate will and may, without any further renunciation, go, devolve and be committed in the same manner as if the person had not been appointed executor.