Public Trustee (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Amendment) Act 1989 (ACT)

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Public Trustee (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Amendment) Act 1989

No. 6 of 1989

An Act to amend the Public Trustee (Miscellaneous Amendments) Act 1985

[Notified in ACT Gazette S12: 20 July 1989]

The Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory enacts as follows:

Short title

1.  This Act may be cited as the Public Trustee (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Amendment) Act 1989.

Contracts, agreements, instruments

2. Section 22 of the Public Trustee (Miscellaneous Amendments) Act 19851 is amended by adding at the end the following subsections:

“(3)  A reference to the Curator in a will made before the commencement of this Act by a testator who dies after that commencement, being a will that has not been revoked, has effect, or shall be taken to have had effect, on and after the death of the testator as if that reference to the Curator were a reference to the Public Trustee.

“(4)  In subsection (3), ‘will’ includes a codicil.”.

NOTE

1. Ordinance No. 9, 1985.

[Minister’s presentation speech made in Assembly on 29 June 1989]

© Australian Capital Territory 1989