ADMINISTRATION AND PROBATE ACT 1958 - SECT 88 Application of this Part to certain other countries
ADMINISTRATION AND PROBATE ACT 1958 - SECT 88
Application of this Part to certain other countriesS. 88(1)
substituted by No. 7874
s. 2(j).
(1) The Governor in Council on being satisfied that a grant of probate or of letters of administration issued by a court of competent jurisdiction in a country other than an Australasian State or the United Kingdom or that a grant or order issued by such a court appointing a person executor of a will or giving a person authority to administer the estate of a deceased person corresponds to a grant of probate or of letters of administration issued by the Supreme Court of Victoria, may by proclamation declare that country to be a country to which this Part applies.
(2) The Governor in Council may from time to time by further proclamation revoke or alter any proclamation made under this section.
(3) Every proclamation made under this section shall be published in the Government Gazette and a copy thereof shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament so soon as may be after it is made.
S. 88(4) amended by No. 7874
s. 2(k)(i)(ii).
(4) This Part when declared by proclamation to apply to a country shall subject to any exceptions and modifications specified in the proclamation apply to probates and grants and orders appointing persons executors of wills or giving persons authority to administer the estates of deceased persons granted or made in that country whether before or after the commencement of this Act.
S. 89
repealed by No. 110/1986
s. 140(2).
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(Heading) substituted by No. 6920 s. 3.
Part IV—Family provision