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Succession Act 1981
sec.33LHow dispositions of property to issue operate
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### sec.33L How dispositions of property to issue operate
A disposition of property to a person’s issue, without limitation as to remoteness, must be distributed to the person’s issue in the same way as the person’s estate would be distributed if the person had died intestate leaving only issue surviving.
Subsection (1) does not apply if a contrary intention appears in the will.
s 33L ins 2006 No. 1 s 6
(sec.33L-ssec.1) A disposition of property to a person’s issue, without limitation as to remoteness, must be distributed to the person’s issue in the same way as the person’s estate would be distributed if the person had died intestate leaving only issue surviving.
(sec.33L-ssec.2) Subsection (1) does not apply if a contrary intention appears in the will.