Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts(1) In determining whether a will has been executed in conformity with a particular law, regard must be given to the formal requirements of that law at the time of execution and, if that law is later altered, account may be taken of that law as altered if it enables the will to be treated as properly executed.
(2) If a law in force outside the Territory is applied to a will, a requirement of that law that special formalities must be observed by testators of a particular description or that witnesses to the execution of the will must have certain qualifications is to be taken to be a formal requirement only.
(3) Subsection (2) applies despite any rule of a law referred to in that subsection to the contrary.