Western Australian Consolidated Acts

WILLS ACT 1970

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   PART I -- Preliminary  

   1.      Short title  
   2.      Commencement  
   4.      Terms used  
   5.      Application of Act  

   PART II -- Dispositions and appointments by will  

   6.      Provision that may be made by will  
   7.      Age of capacity to make will  

   PART III -- Execution of wills  

   8.      Execution generally  
   9.      Execution of will exercising a power of appointment  
   10.     Alterations after execution  
   11.     Situation in which a person cannot be a witness  

   PART V -- Revocation of wills  

   14.     Subsequent marriage  
   14A.    Ending of marriage  
   15.     When will revoked  
   16.     How revoked will revived  

   PART VI -- Privileged wills  

   17.     Saving for wills and revocations made under former provisions  

   PART VII -- Rules as to formal validity of wills  

   20.     General rules as to formal validity  
   21.     Ascertainment of system of internal law  

   PART VIII -- The construction of wills  

   24.     Change of domicile  
   25.     Disposition of interest in property after making of will  
   26.     General rules of construction  
   27.     Statutory substitutional gift  
   28.     Charges on property to be paid primarily out of property charged  
   28A.    Use of extrinsic evidence to clarify a will  

   PART IX -- Illegitimacy  

   29.     Application of Part IX  
   30.     Abolition of rule regarding illegitimates not in being  
   31.     Determination of relationships  

   PART X -- Informal wills  

   32.     Court may dispense with formal requirements  
   33.     Application of section 32  
   38.     Modification of certain references to execution of will  

   PART XI -- Wills of persons who lack testamentary capacity  

           Division 1 -- Jurisdiction of Supreme Court to authorise the making, alteration and revocation of wills  

   39.     Terms used  
   40.     Jurisdiction of Court to make, alter or revoke will  
   41.     Content of application under section 40  
   42.     Certain criteria to be applied by Court  
   43.     Further powers of Court  
   44.     Deposit of wills made under this Part with Principal Registrar  
   45.     Court may allow access to will  
   46.     Alteration or revocation of will authorised under this Part  
   47.     Protection of privacy of persons to whom applications relate  

           Division 2 -- Wills of persons who lack testamentary capacity made under the law of another place  

   48.     Recognition of wills  

   PART XII -- Rectification of wills by Supreme Court  

   49.     Term used: Court  
   50.     Court may rectify a will  
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