Wills Act 1968

This section applies to a will deposited in the office of the registrar.

The registrar may do any of the following:

deposit the will with the public trustee and guardian;

give the public trustee and guardian identifying information about the will;

if satisfied that the whole of the estate has been distributed, and with the permission of a judge—destroy the will.

The registrar must keep records of the following:

any will deposited with the public trustee and guardian, including the date it was deposited;

any will given to a person, including the date and person to whom it was given;

any will destroyed, including the date of destruction.

In this section:

identifying information, about a will, means information about the testator or will that the public trustee and guardian uses to maintain its register of legal records.

register of legal records, of the public trustee and guardian, means a register kept under the Public Trustee and Guardian Act 1985, section 23A.