Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Status of Children Act 1974 - SECT 4

Instruments executed before commencement

4. Instruments executed before commencement



(1) All instruments executed before the commencement of this Act shall be
governed by the enactments, rules of construction, and law which would have
applied to them if this Act had not been passed.

(2) Where an instrument to which subsection (1) applies creates a special
power of appointment nothing in this Act shall extend the class of persons in
whose favour the appointment may be made or cause the exercise of the power to
be construed so as to include any person who is not a member of that class.

(3) The estate of a person who dies intestate as to the whole or any part of
his estate before the commencement of this Act shall be distributed in
accordance with the enactments and rules of law which would have applied to
the estate if this Act had not been passed.