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BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES REGISTRATION ACT 1999 - SECT 28J

28J. Saving for rights of transgendered persons

      (1) A person who is entitled as a beneficiary –

(a) under a will; or

(b) under a trust; or

(c) otherwise by operation of law –

does not, except as may be otherwise provided under the will, the trust or by the law conferring the entitlement, forfeit any right or entitlement by reason only of the fact that he or she is a person whose change of sex is registered or recognised under this Part.

      (2) Subsection (1) does not operate so as to confer any right or entitlement that would not exist apart from that subsection.


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