Administration Act Amendment Act 1945 (WA)

No. 39.] Administration. [1945.

ADMINISTRATION.

9° and 10° GEO. VI., No. XXXIX.

No. 39 of 1945.

AN ACT to make provision in the Administration Act, 1903-1941, for the payment of interest on legacies at a certain rate.

[Assented to 30th January, 1946.]

BE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legis- lative Council and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows

Short titit. 1.

This Act may be cited as the Administration Act Amendment Act, 1945, and shall be read as one with the Administration Act, 1903-1941 (No. 13 of 1903 as amended and reprinted pursuant to the Amendments In- corporation Act, 1938, in Volume 2 of the Reprinted Acts of the Parliament of Western Australia), hereinafter referred to as the principal Act.

New section. 2.

A section is inserted in the principal Act after section one hundred and forty-three as follows:-

Rate of

interest	143A. Interest payable on legacies shall be com- puted after the rate of five pounds per centum per annum unless any other rate of interest is directed by the will or under a judgment or order of a Court directing an account of legacies in which event the rate of interest shall be computed according to such will or as directed under or pursuant to such judg- ment or order.
payable on
legacies.
Citation of

principal Act 3. The principal Act as amended by this Act may be

as amended. cited as the Administration Act, 1903-1945.