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219 PDFTitle:CONVEYANCING AND PROPERTY ORDINANCEGazette Number:
Section:11Heading:Presumption of survivorshipVersion Date:30/06/1997

(1) Except for the purposes of section 4(11) of the Intestates' Estates Ordinance (Cap 73), where, after the commencement of this section, 2 or more persons die in circumstances rendering it uncertain that any one of them, or which of them, survived the other or others, such deaths shall, for all purposes affecting the title to property, be presumed to have occurred in order of seniority, and accordingly the younger shall be deemed to have survived the elder.
(2)-(3) [Amendments incorporated]

[cf. 1925 c. 20 s. 184 U.K.]