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 mav 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, intituled ' An Act for the
Amendment of the Laws xvith respect to Wills '.

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

3.-(1) Every will shall, so far only as regards the position
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
irnrnediate)y after the foot or end of the will, or by the circum-
stance that a blank space intervenes between the concluding
word of the will and the signature, or by the circumstance that
the signature is placed among the words of the testimoniurn
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 is after, or under, or beside
the narnes or one of the names of the subscribing witnesses, or
by the circumstance that the signature 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 contain the signature.

(2) The enumeration of the above circumstances shall not
restrict 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 is underneath
or which follows it, nor shall it give effect to any disposition or
direction inserted after the signature is made.

[s. 4, rep. Law Revision Ordinance, 1937.]
[Originally No. 28 of 1886. Law Rev. Ord., 1937.] Short title. Interpretation. 15 & 16 Vict. C. 24, s. 3. Rules as to position of testator's signature to will. 15 & 16 Vict. c. 24, s. 1.

[Originally No. 28 of 1886. Law Rev. Ord., 1937.] Short title. Interpretation. 15 & 16 Vict. C. 24, s. 3. Rules as to position of testator's signature to will. 15 & 16 Vict. c. 24, s. 1.

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