Part 4Miscellaneous

Part 4 Miscellaneous Section 32 page 42 Wills Act 1968 Effective: 23/02/26 R22 23/02/26 Authorised by the ACT Parliamentary Counsel—also accessible at www.legislation.act.gov.au (b) the person does not survive the deceased person by 30 days. (2) The person is taken to have predeceased the deceased person and the devise, bequest, appointment, power or entitlement lapses, unless the contrary intention appears from the will, or from evidence admitted under section 12B. (3) However, subsection (2) does not apply if the effect of the subsection is that the deceased person’s estate would pass to the Territory under the Administration and Probate Act 1929, section 49CA (How distribution to the Territory is made). (4) A general requirement or condition in a will that a beneficiary survive the testator must not be taken to be an expression of a contrary intention for this section. (5) For subsection (1) (a) (ii), person includes a person conceived before, but born after, the deceased person’s death.