Victorian Current Acts

ADMINISTRATION AND PROBATE ACT 1958 - SECT 70R

    (1)     A partner's property election must be made—

        (a)     if the partner is a personal representative of the intestate, within 3 months of the grant of administration; or

        (b)     if the partner is not a personal representative of the intestate, within 3 months of the date of the right to elect notice which has been given to the partner; or

        (c)     if the Court extends the time for making the election, by the date to which the period for election is extended.

    (2)     The Court may extend the time for making a partner's property election—

        (a)     if it considers there is sufficient cause for doing so; and

        (b)     whether or not the time for making the partner's property election has passed, but not after the administration of the estate has been completed.

S. 70S inserted by No. 41/2017 s. 11.