ADOPTION ACT 1993 - SECT 49 Gifts between living people

ADOPTION ACT 1993 - SECT 49

    (1)     Section 48 applies in relation to a deed executed after the commencement of this Act by which a gift of money is expressed to be made by a person (the donor ) to a person who is not named but who is described as the child of the donor or of a domestic partner, parent, child, brother or sister of the donor, being a person who has been adopted by another person.

Note     For the meaning of domestic partner , see Legislation Act

, s 169.

    (2)     In the application of section 48 because of subsection (1), that section has effect as if—

        (a)     a reference in that section to a will were a reference to the deed of gift; and

        (b)     a reference in that section to the testator or to a personal representative were a reference to the donor; and

        (c)     a reference in that section to property or to an interest in property were a reference to the money that is the subject of the gift.