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Administration and Probate Act 1969
63Provisions relating to persons who at the date of death of the
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63 Provisions relating to persons who at the date of death of the
intestate are infants
(1) Where a person who is entitled, under the provisions of this
Division, to the whole of, or a share in, the intestate estate of an
intestate has not attained, at the date of death of the intestate, the
age of 18 years and is not married, the person is entitled to take the
intestate estate, or the share in the intestate estate, beneficially,
upon his or her attaining the age of 18 years or marrying before
attaining that age.
(2) Where a person to whom subsection (1) applies dies before
attaining the age of 18 years and without having married, this
Division applies in relation to the intestate estate of the intestate as
if the person had died before the intestate.
(3) This section does not affect the operation of a law in force in the
Territory authorizing expenditure for the maintenance,
advancement or benefit of a person under the age of 18 years out
of property held on trust for, or for the benefit of, the person and, if
property forming part of the intestate estate is expended for the
maintenance, advancement or benefit of such a person and that
person dies before attaining that age and without having married,
the intestate estate shall, for the purposes of this Division, be
deemed to have been reduced by the amount so expended.