AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

ADMINISTRATION AND PROBATE ORDINANCE 1965

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM 

No. 20 of 1965

	This Ordinance makes a number of miscellaneous amendments to the law relating to the granting of probate on administration of estates, the more important being –

(i)	Probate on administration may be granted on presumption of death.

(ii)	When a person dies wholly interstate leaving a spouse but no issue, the surviving will take the first £5,000 of the estate instead of the first £1,000, as at present.

(iii)	Administrators are given the same powers to compound debts as are presently given to executors.

(iv)	The Curator of Estates of Deceased Persons is given greater powers in respect of small estates.

(v)	Professional charges are increased.