Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) The provisions of
this Act apply in all cases, whether the deceased died before or after the
coming into operation of this Act, but so that no distribution of any part of
the estate of a deceased person that has been made before the coming into
operation of this Act shall be disturbed in favour of any person by reason of
any application or order made under this Act if it could not have been
disturbed in favour of that person by reason of any application or order made
under the Testator’s Family Maintenance Act 1939 , now repealed.
(2) The provisions of
sections 15, 16 and 17 of this Act apply to orders made before the coming into
operation of this Act under section 11 of the Guardianship of Infants Act 1920
2 .
(3) Notwithstanding
the repeal of the Testator’s Family Maintenance Act 1939 , effected by
section 3(1) of this Act —
(a)
every order that is, under or by virtue of that Act, still in force on the
coming into operation of this Act, continues to have effect as though made
under this Act;
(b)
every proceeding that has been commenced under that Act and not completed
shall be continued as though this Act had been in operation when the
proceeding was so commenced.