Simultaneous Deaths Act Amendment Act 1962 (WA)

No. 85.] Simultaneous Deaths. [1962.

SIMULTANEOUS DEATHS.

11° Elizabeth II., No. LXXXV.

No. 85 of 1962.

AN ACT to amend the Simultaneous Deaths

Act, 1960.

[Assented to 6th December, 1962.]

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, 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:—

asiviretzlie. 1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Simul-

taneous Deaths Act Amendment Act, 1962.

(2) In this Act the Simultaneous Deaths Act,

1960, is referred to as the principal Act.

1962.] Simultaneous Deaths. [No. 85.

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act may be cited as the Simultaneous Deaths Act, 1960-1962.

S. 4

2. Section four of the principal Act is amended amended.

by adding after paragraph (f) the following

paragraph:

(f a) where, by any will or other testamentary instrument, any property is devised or bequeathed or appointed to the survivor of two or more of the testator's children or other issue within the meaning of section twenty-one of the Law Reform (Property, Perpetuities, and Succession) Act, 1962, and all or the last survivors of those children or issue are persons so dying, section twenty- one of the Law Reform (Property, Per- petuities, and Succession) Act, 1962, (where it applies) takes effect as if the devise or bequest or appointment were in equal shares to those of them who so die and leave a child or children living at the death of the testator.