12Changes in estates and interests

12 Changes in estates and interests

(1)  *[Section 12 Subsection (1) amended by No. 105 of 1971, s. 4 ]*For the purposes of section 9 –

(a) where an estate or interest has been created out of or upon an estate or interest existing at the commencement of this Act, it shall be deemed to have been then in existence within the estate or interest then existing out of or upon which it was created; and

(b) where an estate or interest in existence at the commencement of this Act has merged in, fallen back into, or disappeared off another estate or interest then existing, the two estates or interests shall be deemed to have been one at the commencement of this Act.

(2)  The principle of subsection (1) applies to any like case not provided for in it.