WILLS ACT AMENDMENT ORDINANCE, 1886

WILLS ACT AMENDMENT ORDINANCE, 1886

No. 14 of 1886.
An Ordinance to amend the law relating to wills.

[14th December, 1886.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Wills Act Amend-
ment Ordinance, 1886.

2. In this Ordinance,

(a) The principal Act means the Act of Parliament 7
William 4 and 1 Victoria, chapter 26, entitled An Act for
the Amendment of the Laws with respect to Will.

(b) Will has the same meaning as in the principal Act.

3.-(1) Every will shall, so far only as regards the posi-
tion of the signature of the testator or of the person signing
for him, be deemed to be valid within the principal. Act as
explained by this Ordinance, if the signature is so placed at,
or after, or following, or under or beside, or opposite to the
end of the will that it is apparent on the face of the will
that the testator intended to give effect by such his signature
to the writing as his will; and no such will shall be affected,
by the circumstance that the signature does not follow or
come immediately after the foot or end of the will, or by the
circumstance that a blank space intervenes between the, con-
cluding word of the will and the signature, or by the cir-
cumstance that the signature is placed among the words of
the testimonium clause or of the clause of attestation, or
follows or is after or under the clause of attestation, either
with or without a blank space intervening, or follows or

* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1923.
after, or under, or beside the names or one of the names of
the subscribing witnesses, or by the circumstance that the
gsignature is on a side or page or other portion of the paper or
papers containing the will whereon no clause or paragraph, or
disposing part of the will is written above the signature, or
by the circumstance that there, appears to be sufficient space
on or at the bottom of the preceding side or page or other
portion of the same paper on which the will is written to
the signature.

(2) The enumeration of the above circumstances shall not
ressstrict the generality of the above enactment; but no
signature under the principal Act or this Ordinance shall be
operative to give effect to any disposition or direction which
underneath or which follows it, nor shall it give effect to
any disposition or direction inserted after the signature is
made.

4. This Ordinance shall extend and be applied to every
made prior to the 31st day of Octobor, 1854, and taking
effect in the Colony, administration to which or probate of
which had not up to that date been granted or ordered by a
court of competent jurisdiction in consequence of the
fefective execution of such will, or where the property, not
being within the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court, has not
been possessed or enjoyed by some person claiming to be
entitled thereto in consequence of the defective execution of
such will, or the right thereto has not been decided to be in
some other person thanthe persons claiming under the will
by a court of competent Jurisdiction in consequence of the
defective execution of such will, and to every will made
the 31st day of October, 1854.
[Originally No. 28 of 1886. Law Rev. Ord., 1924.] Short title Interpretation. 15 Vict.c. 24, s. 3. Rules as to position of testator's signature to will. 15 Vict.c.24, s. 1. Application of the Ordinance to certain wills already made. 15 Vict.c. 24, s. 2.

[Originally No. 28 of 1886. Law Rev. Ord., 1924.] Short title Interpretation. 15 Vict.c. 24, s. 3. Rules as to position of testator's signature to will. 15 Vict.c.24, s. 1. Application of the Ordinance to certain wills already made. 15 Vict.c. 24, s. 2.

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