Administration of Estates Act (Northern Ireland) 1955

15Operation of provisions for distribution or taking per stirpes.N.I.

Where under any provision of this Act an intestate's estate or any share therein is to be distributed per stirpes among, or taken per stirpes by, the issue or surviving issue of any person, any issue more remote than a child of that person shall take through all degrees, according to their stocks, in equal shares if more than one, the share which the parent of such issue would have taken if living at the death of the intestate, and no issue of that person shall take if the parent of such issue is living at the death of the intestate and so capable of taking.