Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts(1) If a person who is entitled, under this division, to the whole of, or a share in, an intestate estate is not, at the date of death of the intestate, 18 years old and is not married, the person is entitled to take the intestate estate, or the share in the intestate estate, beneficially, on reaching 18 or marrying before that age.
(2) If a person to whom subsection (1) applies dies before reaching 18 years old and without having married, this division applies in relation to the intestate estate as if the person had died before the intestate.
(3) This section does not affect the operation of any law in force in the ACT authorising expenditure for the maintenance, advancement or benefit of a person under 18 years old out of property held on trust for, or for the benefit of, the person and, if property forming part of the intestate estate is expended for the maintenance, advancement or benefit of the person and that person dies before reaching that age and without having married, the intestate estate is, for this division, taken to have been reduced by the amount so expended.