Administration and Probate Act 1969

Probate of the will, or administration of the estate, of a person may be granted by the Court if it is satisfied, by direct evidence or by evidence supporting a presumption of death, that the person is, or may be presumed to be, dead.

A grant of probate of the will, or administration of the estate, of a person made upon direct evidence of the death of the person or upon evidence supporting a presumption of the death of the person is valid notwithstanding that the person is, after the day on which the grant was made, found to have been alive on that day.