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POWERS OF ATTORNEY ACT 1998 - SECT 61D
Application to court to confirm or vary operation of s 61B
61D Application to court to confirm or vary operation of s 61B
(1) An application may be made to the court for— (a) an order, including an
order to direct a conveyance, deed or other thing to be executed or done, to
give effect to section 61B ; or
(b) an order to ensure a beneficiary under
the principal’s will does not gain an unjust and disproportionate advantage
or suffer an unjust and disproportionate disadvantage of a kind not
contemplated by the will because of the operation of section 61B .
(2) An
application may be made by— (a) a beneficiary under the principal’s will;
or
(b) the personal representative of a deceased beneficiary under the
principal’s will; or
(c) the personal representative of the principal.
(3)
An order made under subsection (1) (b) — (a) has effect as if it had been
made as a codicil to the principal’s will executed immediately before the
principal’s death; and
(b) applies despite any contrary operation of
section 61B .
(4) An application under this section must be made to the court
within 6 months after the principal’s death.
(5) The court may extend the
application time.
(6) The Succession Act 1981 , section 44 (1) to (4) applies
to an application and an order made on it as if the application were an
application under part 4 of that Act by a person entitled to make an
application.
(7) Despite section 109A , a reference in this section to the
court does not include a reference to the tribunal.
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