New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PROBATE AND ADMINISTRATION ACT 1898 - SECT 91

91 Persons etc making payments upon probates granted for estate of deceased person to be indemnified

(1) All persons making or permitting to be made any payment or transfer, bona fide, upon any probate or administration or order granted in respect of the estate of any deceased person under the authority of this part shall be indemnified and protected in so doing, notwithstanding any defect or circumstance whatsoever affecting the validity of such probate or administration or order not then known to such persons.

(2) In respect of the estate of a person who dies on or after 31 December 1981, the indemnity and protection conferred by subsection (1) shall apply only in relation to property of the estate of the deceased which is listed in a document issued by the Court in relation to the probate, administration or order.