Succession (Amendment) Bill 2015

Public bill · Private Member · Introduced

If one joint owner is convicted of murdering, attempting to murder or manslaughtering another, the offender would lose both the victim’s share and their own share in the jointly owned property. Those interests would instead pass to the victim’s estate, preventing someone from benefiting financially from killing a co-owner.

Formal long title

Bill entitled an Act to amend the Succession Act 1965 so as to provide for the assignment of property rights deriving from a joint tenancy in circumstances where one co-owner is unlawfully killed by another co-owner and for that purpose to amend the Succession Act 1965

Last updated 12 April 2018