Western Australian Current Acts

ESCHEAT (PROCEDURE) ACT 1940

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   1.      Short title
            
   2.      Definitions
            
   4.      Applications for order of escheat
            
   5.      Notice to be published
            
   6.      Person claiming title to property or premises may appear and support claim
            
   7.      Court may declare property has become property of Crown by way of escheat
            
   8.      Sale of escheated property and application of proceeds
            
   9.      Governor in Executive Council may make orders with respect to escheated property in favour of persons with moral claim
            
   10.     Sheriff to execute conveyance or transfer of escheated property
            
   11.     Rules of Court
            
   12.     Regulations
            
           Other notes
           Defined terms