Northern Territory Consolidated Acts

WILLS ACT

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

           part 1 - preliminary

   1.      Short title
   2.      Commencement
   3.      Definitions
   4.      Purpose
   5.      Application of Act

           part 2 - capacity and formal requirements

           Division 1 - Capacity

   6.      Property that may be disposed of by will
   7.      Minimum age for making will

           Division 2 - Execution of wills

   8.      How wills should be executed
   9.      Witnesses need not know the contents of what they are signing
   10.     When Court may dispense with requirements for execution of wills
   11.     Persons who may not be witnesses to wills
   12.     Can interested witnesses benefit from dispositions under wills?

           Division 3 - Revocation, alteration and revival of wills

   13.     How wills may be revoked
   14.     Effect of marriage on wills
   15.     Effect of divorce etc. on wills
   16.     How wills may be altered
   17.     How wills may be revived

           part 3 - wills made or rectified under court authorisation

           Division 1 - Wills made by minors

   18.     Court may authorise wills by minors

           Division 2 - Wills for persons without testamentary capacity

   19.     Court may make certain orders regarding persons without testamentary capacity
   20.     Leave of Court is required to make application
   21.     Court must be satisfied as to certain matters
   22.     Orders Court may make on application for leave
   23.     Application for authorisation of making etc. of will
   24.     Execution of will
   25.     Retention of will or instrument
   26.     Recognition of statutory wills

           Division 3 - Rectification of wills by Court

   27.     Court may rectify will

           part 4 - construction of will

   28.     What interests in property do wills dispose of?
   29.     When do wills take effect?
   30.     Effect of failure of dispositions
   31.     Use of extrinsic evidence to clarify wills
   32.     Effect of change in testator's domicile
   33.     Income on contingent, future or deferred dispositions
   34.     Beneficiaries must survive testator by 30 days
   35.     What do general dispositions of property include?
   36.     What do general dispositions of land include?
   37.     Effect of devise of real property without words of limitation
   38.     How dispositions to issue operate
   39.     How requirements to survive with issue are to be construed
   40.     Dispositions not to fail because issue have died before testator
   41.     Construction of dispositions
   42.     Legacies to unincorporated associations of persons
   43.     Can persons delegate, by will, power to dispose of property?
   44.     Effect of referring to valuation in a will

           part 5 - wills under foreign law

   45.     Definition of "internal law"
   46.     General rule as to formal validity
   47.     Ascertainment of system of internal law
   48.     Construction of the law applying to wills under foreign law

           part 6 - deposit of wills with prescribed person

   49.     Prescribed person
   50.     Will may be deposited with prescribed person
   51.     Delivery of will by prescribed person
   52.     Examination of will by prescribed person
   53.     Failure to retain will does not affect validity of will

           part 7 - miscellaneous

   54.     Persons who are entitled to see will
   55.     Personal representative may make maintenance distribution within 30 days
   56.     Regulations
   57.     Repeal
   58.     Savings
           schedule
           Endnotes