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Administration and Probate Act 1929
43CRights and liabilities of executor of executor
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43C Rights and liabilities of executor of executor
While a person who has become the executor of the will of a testator
under the application, or of successive applications, of section 43A,
continues to be the executor of the will of the testator—
(a) the person has the same rights in relation to the estate of that
testator as the original executor, or the original executors, would
have if living; and
(b) the person is, to the extent to which the estate of the testator has
come to his or her hands, answerable as if the person were the
original executor, or 1 of the original executors of the will of the
testator.