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Act 205

PRESUMPTION OF SURVIVORSHIP
ACT 1950
Incorporating all amendments up to 1 January 2006

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PRESUMPTION OF SURVIVORSHIP ACT 1950

First enacted ... ... ... ... … ... 1950 (Ordinance No. 16
of 1950)

Revised ... ... ... ... … ... … 1978 (Act 205 w.e.f.
1 June 1978)

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ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

Section

1. Short title
2. Presumption of survivorship in regard to claim to property

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LAWS OF MALAYSIA

Act 205

PRESUMPTION OF SURVIVORSHIP ACT 1950

An Act to provide for presumption of survivorship in regard to

claims to property.

[Peninsular Malaysia—23 May 1950;

Sabah and Sarawak—25 February 1965]

Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the Presumption of Survivorship Act

1950.

Presumption of survivorship in regard to claim to property

2. In all cases where two or more persons die in circumstances

rendering it uncertain which of them survived the other or others,
such deaths shall (subject to any order of the court) for all purposes
affecting the title to property be presumed to have occured in order
of seniority and accordingly the younger shall be deemed to have
survived the elder.

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PRESUMPTION OF SURVIVORSHIP ACT 1950

LIST OF AMENDMENTS

Amending law Short title In force from

L.N. 66/1965 Modification of Laws (Presumptions 25-02-1965

of Survivorship (Extension)) Order
1965

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LIST OF SECTIONS AMENDED

Section Amending authority In force from

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