3Interpretation

3 Interpretation

[Section 3 Subsection (1) amended by No. 20 of 1995, s. 5 and Sched. 3 ]

(1)  *[Section 3 Subsection (1) amended by No. 4 of 1978, s. 2 ]*In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears –

administration means, with reference to the real and personal estate of a deceased person, letters of administration, whether general or limited, or with the will annexed or otherwise; and in Part VI includes exemplification of letters of administration or such other formal evidence of the letters of administration purporting to be under the seal of a court of competent jurisdiction as shall, in the opinion of a judge, be deemed sufficient;

administrator means a person to whom administration is granted;

conveyance includes a mortgage, lease, assent, vesting declaration, vesting instrument, disclaimer, release, and every other assurance of property or of an interest therein by any instrument, except a will; and disposition includes a "conveyance" and also a devise or bequest and an appointment of property contained in a will;

Court means the Supreme Court;

income includes rents and profits;

intestate includes a person who leaves a will but dies intestate as to some beneficial interest in his real or personal estate;

pecuniary legacy includes an annuity, a general legacy, a demonstrative legacy so far as it is not discharged out of the designated property, and any other general direction by a testator for the payment of money, including all duties free from which any devise, bequest, or payment is made to take effect;

personal chattels means carriages, horses, stable furniture and effects, motor-cars and accessories, garden effects, domestic animals, plate, plated articles, linen, china, glass, books, pictures, prints, furniture, jewellery, articles of household or personal use or ornament, musical and scientific instruments and apparatus, wines, liquors, and consumable stores, but does not include any chattels used at the death of the intestate for business purposes, nor money or securities for money;