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Administration and Probate Act 1958
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70B Definitions for this Part
In this Part—
***acquisition authorisation order*** means an order of the Court under section 70U;
***distribution agreement*** means an agreement entered into between multiple partners of an intestate as to the distribution of the intestate's estate between those partners;
***distribution order*** means an order of the Court under section 70ZD;
***partner*** of an intestate means the person's spouse, domestic partner or registered caring partner at the time of the intestate's death;
See also definitions in section 3(1).
***partner's property election*** means an election by the surviving partner of an intestate under section 70P;
***partner's statutory legacy*** means the amount to which a partner is entitled under Division 3—
(a) as specified in section 70M(1); or
(b) as published from time to time by the Minister under section 70N;
***real and personal estate*** of an intestate means every beneficial interest (including rights of entry and reverter) of the intestate in real and personal estate which (otherwise than in right of a power of appointment or of the testamentary power conferred by statute to dispose of entailed interests) the intestate could have disposed of by will, if of full age and capacity;
***right to elect notice*** means a notice under section 70Q.
S. 70C inserted by No. 41/2017 s. 11.