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Wills (Amendment) Ordinance 1989
No. 16 of 1989
I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Ordinance under the Seat of Government (Administration) Act 1910. 
Dated 13 March 1989.
	BILL HAYDEN
	Governor-General
By His Excellency’s Command,
CLYDE HOLDING
Minister of State for the Arts 
and Territories

An Ordinance to amend the Wills Ordinance 1968
Short title
1.  This Ordinance may be cited as the Wills (Amendment) Ordinance 1989.1

Commencement
2.  This Ordinance commences on such date as is fixed by the Minister by notice in the Gazette.
Insertion
3.  After section 31 of the Wills Ordinance 19682 the following section is inserted:
Legitimacy of issue
“31A.  A reference in a will to issue (however described) of a person shall, unless a contrary intention appears from the will, be construed as referring to all such issue, whether legitimate or illegitimate.”.
Application
4.  The amendment effected by section 3 applies only in relation to wills made or republished after the commencement date.

NOTES
1.	Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 22 March 1989.
2.	No. 11, 1968 as amended by No. 65, 1977; No. 46, 1978; No. 46, 1983.