Succession Act of 1906 Declaratory Act of 1919 (10 Geo v No. 6) (Qld)

STOCK.-SUCCESSION. 933~ 10 GEO. V. No. 6, 1919. SuccessionAct of 1906 Declaratory Act. (viii.) Prescribing the powers and duties of officers,offict;rS, chemists, and analysts under this Act. ~ ~ ~ mlsts, All such regulations shall upon being published in the analysts Gazette have the same effect as if they Were enacted in this Act. All such regulations shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament forthwith, if then sitting, and, if not then sitting, within fourteen days after the commencement of the next ensuing session. If such regulations are not so laid before both Houses of Parliament within the time aforesaid, such regulations shall thereupon cease to have any force, effect, or operation whatsoever. If either House of Parliament, within the next forty sitting days affer any regulations have been so laid before such House, resol ves that such regulations or any of them ought to. be annulled, the same shall after the date of such resolution be of no effect, without prejudice to the validity of anything done in the meantime under such regulations or to the making of any new regulations. SUCCESSION. SuccessionAct oj 1906 Declaratory Act of 1919... 10 Gea. V. No. 6 Sl:tccession and Probate Duties Acts Amendment Act of 1920 ... 10 Geo. v. No. 29 An Act to Remove a Doubt as to the Meaning and 10 Geo. v. Effect of *"The SuccessionAct of 1906." No. 6. THE [ A SSENTED TO 7 TH N OVEMB;ER, 1919 • ] ASCUTCC O E F SS 1 I 9 O 0 N 6 B v c. I . t enacted by t h e Km . g ' s M J: ost E xce 11 en t . l . \ .u 1f aJ • es t y, DAECCTLA O R F A I T !! O l! R ! Y . by and with the advice and consent of the Legis- lative Council and Legislative Assembly of Queensland in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :- 1 This Act may be cited as "The SuccessionAct of Short title. 1906 Declaratory Act of 1919." . 2 (1.) The following provision is added to sectiOnAIl).endment two of *" The Succession Act of 1906" :_ . V of II 6 . ENdow. . 24. " And it is hereby e..xpressly decJared that the fore- going provision shall be construed so as to distribute the real and personal estate as to * 6 Edw. VII. No. 24., supra, page 3372.

9332 .SUCCESSION. Succession, &:c., Duties Acts Amendment. 10 GEO. V. No. 29, which a married woman dies intestate after the passing of tbis Act between her husband and her children or her next-of-kin in the like manner and proportions in which the real and personal estate as to which a married man dies intestate is distributable between his widow and his children or next-of-kin; and so that where a married woman. dies intesta.te after the passing of this Act leaving a husband but no issue and no mother who is a widow surviving her such husband shall be entitled to and shall receive the like benefits as would be received by a widow under the provisions of *" The Succession Act Amendment Act of 1895" upon the death of her husband in similar circumstances.', (2.) t" The Succession Act of 1906" shall be con- strued as if the amendment of the said section hereby made had been inserted therein at the date of the passing of the said Act: Provided that nothing herein contained shall of itself invaJidate or disturb the distribution of the intestate estate of any deceased married woman made or partly made before the pasfJing of this Act upon the assumption that the husband of such married woman was not entitled to any of the benefits which by *" T,he Succession Act Amendment Act of 1895" are conferred upon the widow of a married man dying intestate. 10 Geo. V• An Act to Amend "The Succession and Probate . No. ~9. THE Duties Acts, 1892 to 1918," in certain SUCCESSION AND PROBATE particulars. DUTIES ACTS [ASSENTED TO 8TH MARCH, 1920.] BE AMENDMENT ACT OF 1920, 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 Queensland in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows : - Short title 1. This Act may be cited· as "The Succession and : ~ ~ struction Probate Duties Acts Amendment Act of 1920," and- shall of Act. * 59 Vic. No. 10, supra, page 3371. t 6 Edw. VII. No. 24, 8upra, page 3372..