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2046 ORDINANCE No. 28 OF 1886.


Wills Act Amendment.


No. 28 of 1886.

[15 & 16 Vic. An Ordinance entitled An Ordinance to amend the Law relating
c. 26. ]
to Wills.

[ 14th December, 1886. ]

E it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the
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Legislative Council thereof, as follows :
Short title.
1. This Ordinance may be cited for all purposes as " The Wills Act
Amendment Ordinance, 1886."

Interpreta 2. The expression " Principal Act " in this Ordinance shall mean
tion.
an Act passed in the 7th year of the reign of His Majesty King WILLIAM
the 4th, and the 1st year of the reign of Her Present Majesty Queen
VICTORIA chapter 26 entitled " An Act for the Amendment ofthe Laws
with respect to Wills ," and
Interpreta The word Will" shall in the construction of this Ordinance be
tion
of Wills. interpreted in like manner as the same is directed to be interpreted under
[ 15 & 16 Vic.
c. 24, s. 3. ] the provisions in this behalf contained in the Principal Act.
Repeal. 3. So much of Ordinance No. 3. of 1854 as relates to the Act passed
in the 15th and 16th years of Her present Majesty chapter 24 is hereby
repealed , but such repeal shall not affect any past operation of the said

Ordinance or any thing done or suffered thereunder.
When will .
shall be 4. Every will shall so far only as regards the position of the signa
deemed valid
as regards the ture of the testator, or of the person signing for him as aforesaid , be
position of deemed to be valid within the Principal Act as explained by this Ordi
the testator's
signature. nance, if the signature shall be so placed at or after, or following, or
[ 15 & 16 Vic.
c. 24, s. 1. ] under, or beside, or opposite to the end of the will, that it shall be appa
rent 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 shall not follow or be
immediately after the foot or end of the will , or by the circumstance that
a blank space shall intervene between the concluding word of the will
and the signature, or by the circumstance that the signature shall be
placed among the words of the testimonium clause or of the clause of

attestation , or shall follow or be after or under the clause of attestation ,

either with or without a blank space intervening or shall follow or be after ,
or under, or beside the names or one of the names of the subscribing
witnesses, or by the circumstance that the signature shall be on a side