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No. 13 of 1886.
COMMISSIONERS POWERS.
Protection to person publishing true account of evidence.
10. No person shall be liable to any action, suit, indictment, or proceeding by reason of his publishing a true account of any evidence taken in public in pursuance of the powers conferred by this Ordinance or of any report of the commissioners made public by the authority of the Governor.
c. 105, s. 12.
[Originally No. 28 of 1886. Law Rev. Ord., 1937.]
Short title. Interpretation.
15 & 16 Vict. c. 24, s. 3. Rules as to position of testator's signature to will.
15 & 16 Vict. c. 24, s. 1.
No. 14 of 1886.
An Ordinance to amend the law relating to wills.
[14th December, 1886.]
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Wills Act Amendment Ordinance, 1886.
2. In this Ordinance,
(a) "The principal Act" means the Act of Parliament 7 William 4 and 1 Victoria, chapter 26, intituled "An Act for the Amendment of the Laws with respect to Wills".
(b) "Will" has the same meaning as in the principal Act.
3.—(1) Every will shall, so far only as regards the position of the signature of the testator or of the person signing for him, be deemed to be valid within the principal Act as explained by this Ordinance, if the signature is so placed at, or after, or following, or under, or beside, or opposite to the end of the will that it is apparent on the face of the will that the testator intended to give effect by such his signature to the writing as his will; and no such will shall be affected by the circumstance that the signature does not follow or come immediately after the foot or end of the will, or by the circumstance that a blank space intervenes between the concluding word of the will and the signature, or by the circumstance that the signature is placed among the words of the testimonium clause or of the clause of attestation, or follows or is after or under the clause of attestation, either with or without a blank space intervening, or follows or is after, or under, or beside the names or one of the names of the subscribing witnesses, or by the circumstance that the signature is on a side or page or other portion of the paper or papers containing the will whereon