POSSIBLE AMENDMENT TO LAW REFORM ACT
ACTIONS AGAINST DEAD PERSONS’ ESTATES (United Press Association) WELLINGTON, February 23. “The Prime Minister is in charge of the order paper. It is not for me to say whether such a measure will be placed on it for consideration,” said the At-torney-General (the Hon. H. G. R. Mason) when asked whether Parliament at the session to be resumed next week would be called on to consider a modifying amendment to the Law Reform Act, 1936. Section 3 (1) of the Law Reform Act, in abolishing the principle that a personal action ceases with the death of the person, except for three special causes of action, provides that on the death of any person all causes of action subsisting against or vested in him shall survive against, or, as the case may be, for the benefit of his estate. The New Zealand Law Journal stated that it had been informed last October that the Attorney-General proposed introducing an amendment and that the Bill had already been drafted. Mr Mason said today the session had been adjourned for consideration of the national superannuation scheme and what other work would be got in was not for him to say.
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Southland Times, Issue 23442, 24 February 1938, Page 4
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