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Administration and Probate Act 1929
43AExecutor of executor
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43A Executor of executor
If—
(a) probate of the will of a testator has been granted to a person (in
this division called the original executor) as the sole executor,
or as 1 of the executors, of the will of the testator; and
(b) the original executor was, immediately before his or her death,
the sole, or the last surviving, executor of the will of the testator;
and
(c) probate of the will of the original executor is granted to the
executor, or 1 of the executors, (the succeeding executor) of the
will of the original executor;
the succeeding executor becomes, on the grant of probate of the will
of the original executor—
(d) the executor of the will of the testator; and
(e) the executor of the will of any other testator of whose will the
testator was, immediately before his or her death, the executor
under the application, or successive applications, of this section.
Position of executor of an executor Division 3.4