ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1955

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ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1955 - SECT 45

Interpretation.

45.(1) In this Act the expression

"enactment" includes any provision in any Act whether public general, local or
private, and any provision in any Order in Council, order or regulation made
under any Act;

"infant" means a person under the age of [eighteen];

"pecuniary legacy" includes an annuity, a general legacy, a demonstrative
legacy so far as it is not discharged out of the designated property, and any
other general direction by a testator for the payment of money, including all
death duties free from which any devise, bequest, or payment is made to take
effect;

"personal chattels" means carriages, horses, stable furniture and effects,
motor cars and accessories, garden effects, domestic animals, plate, plated
articles, linen, china, glass, books, pictures, prints, furniture, jewellery,
articles of household or personal use or ornament, musical and scientific
instruments and apparatus, wines, liquors and consumable stores, but does not
include any chattels used at the death of the intestate for business or
professional purposes nor money or security for money;

"personal representatives" means the executors or executor, original or by
representation, or the administrators or administrator for the time being of a
deceased person;

"possession" includes the receipt of, or the right to receive, rents and
profits, if any;

"property" includes all property both real and personal.

(2) Where one of two or more proving executors has died, references in
sub-section (2) of section thirty-two and in sub-section (5) of section
thirty-four to a proving executor or executors shall be construed as
references to the survivor or survivors (as the case may be) of the proving
executors.

S.46(a), with Second Schedule, effects amendments; para.(b), with Third
Schedule, effects repeals

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ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1955 - SECT 45