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ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1955 - SECT 47

Savings.

47.(1) Nothing in this Act shall affect any unrepealed enactment dispensing
with probate or administration as respects personal estate not including
chattels real.

(2) Nothing in this Act shall

Para.(a) rep. by 1975 c.7 s.59 sch.13 Pt.I

(b)alter the incidence of any death duty;

(c)affect any remedy of the Ministry of Finance for the recovery of any death
duty.

(3) Except to the extent to which any provision of this Act expressly provides
to the contrary the provisions of this Act shall not apply to the estate of
any person dying before the commencement of this Act.

(4) Nothing in this Act in any manner affects or alters the descent or
devolution of any property for the time being vested in Her Majesty either in
right of the Crown or of the Duchy of Lancaster or of any property for the
time being belonging to the Duchy of Cornwall.

(5) Nothing in this Act shall affect the operation of any rule of law [whereby
a person may by reason of his own criminal act be precluded] from taking any
benefit either under the will or on the intestacy of [another].


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