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WILLS ACT - SECT 56

Regulations

    (1)     The Administrator may make regulations, not inconsistent with this Act, prescribing matters that are:

        (a)     required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed; or

        (b)     necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act.

    (2)     Without limiting the generality of subsection (1), the Regulations may:

        (a)     prescribe the manner of giving public notice of a person who is prescribed under section 49(1) to be a person with whom wills may be deposited;

        (b)     prescribe the procedures for the transfer to a prescribed person of wills deposited under Part 6 with the Public Trustee or other person who is no longer a prescribed person;

        (c)     prescribe the fee payable under section 50 in respect of a will or testator or a class of will or testator and may authorise a prescribed person to waive the payment of a fee payable in respect of a will or class of will;

        (d)     provide for the keeping and maintenance of an index of wills deposited with a prescribed person and the making available of the index of wills for a member of the public to search; and

        (e)     provide for the destruction of or other dealing with a will that remains deposited with a prescribed person after the death of the testator whose will it is.



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