Administration Act Amendment Act 1963 (WA)

1963.] Administration. [No. 66.

ADMINISTRATION.

12° Elizabeth IL, No. LXVI.

No. 66 of 1963.

AN ACT to amend the Administration Act,

1903-1962.

[Assented to 18th December, 1963.]

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most ExcellentMajesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Administra- Short titleand citation.

tion Act Amendment Act, 1963.

Reprinted in

Vol. 12 Re-

printed Acts,

approved for

(2) In this Act the Administration Act, 1903-1962, reprint 23rd April, 1958,

is referred to as the principal Act.

further

amended by

Acts Nos.

56 of 1959,

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act 80 of 1962.

may be cited as the Administration Act, 1903-1963.	21 of 1960,
57 of 1961 and

No. 66.] Administration. [1963.

S. 55 2. Section fifty-five of the principal Act is

repealed and

re-enacted.

repealed and re-enacted with amendments as

follows:—

Where estate

does not	55. In all cases where a person dies leaving
exceed £2,500

the Master	property not exceeding two thousand five
or district
agent may	hundred pounds in value, application for
act.	probate or administration may be made direct to the Master; or if the fixed abode of the deceased at the time of his death has been more than fifty miles from Perth, then to the district agent for the Master nearest to such place of abode.
S. 57

amended. 3. Section fifty-seven of the principal Act is

amended by substituting for the word, "one" in line

four of subsection (2) the word, "two".