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Western Australia
Inheritance (Family and Dependants Provision)
Amendment Bill 2012
CONTENTS
1. Short title 2
2. Commencement 2
3. Act amended 2
4. Section 5 replaced 2
5. Section 4 amended 2
5. Section 9 amended 2
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Western Australia
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY
Inheritance (Family and Dependants Provision)
Amendment Bill 2012
A Bill for
An Act to amend the Inheritance (Family and Dependants Provision)
Amendment Act 2011.
The Parliament of Western Australia enacts as follows:
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1 1. Short title
2 This is the Inheritance (Family and Dependants Provision)
3 Amendment Act 2012.
4 2. Commencement
5 This Act comes into operation on the day on which it receives
6 the Royal Assent.
7 3. Act amended
8 This Act amends the Inheritance (Family and Dependants
9 Provision) Amendment Act 2011.
10 4. Section 5 replaced
11 Delete section 5 and insert:
12
13 5. Section 4 amended
14 In section 4(1) insert in alphabetical order:
15
16 stepchild means a person who was alive on the date on
17 which the deceased married or entered into a de facto
18 relationship with a parent of the person but who is not a
19 child of the deceased;
20
21 5. Section 9 amended
22 In section 9(1)(b) in the insertion delete paragraph (eb) and
23 insert:
24
25 (eb) a stepchild of the deceased, if --
26 (i) the deceased received or was entitled to
27 receive property from the estate of a
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1 parent of the stepchild, otherwise than
2 as a creditor of that estate; and
3 (ii) the value of that property, at the time of
4 the parent's death, is greater than the
5 prescribed amount;
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