### Wills Ordinance 《遺囑條例》

17. Revoked will not revived otherwise than by re-execution or codicil
(1) No will or any part thereof, which is in any manner revoked, shall be revived otherwise than by the re-execution thereof or by a codicil executed in accordance with section 5 and showing an intention to revive it.
(2) When any will which is partly revoked, and afterwards wholly revoked, is revived, such revival shall not extend to so much thereof as was revoked before the revocation of the whole thereof, unless an intention to the contrary is shown.
[cf. 1837 c. 26 s. 22 U.K.]

18. Subsequent conveyance or other act not to prevent operation of will
No conveyance or other act made or done subsequently to the execution of a will of or relating to any property comprised therein, except an act by which the will is revoked in accordance with section 13(1), shall prevent the operation of the will with respect to any estate or interest in such property which the testator has power to dispose of by will at the time of his death.
(Amended 56 of 1995 s. 6)[cf. 1837 c. 26 s. 23 U.K.]

19. Will to speak from death of testator
Every will shall, with reference to the property comprised in it, be construed to speak and take effect as if it had been executed immediately before the death of the testator, unless a contrary intention appears from the will.
[cf. 1837 c. 26 s. 24 U.K.]

20. General disposition of land to include leasehold
A general disposition of land shall be construed to include leasehold interests, unless a contrary intention appears from the will.
[cf. 1837 c. 26 s. 26 U.K.]

21. General disposition of property to include property over which testator has a general power of appointment
A general disposition of property shall be construed to include any property which the testator may have power to appoint in any manner he may think proper and shall operate as an execution of such power, unless a contrary intention appears from the will.
[cf. 1837 c. 26 s. 27 U.K.]

### Wills Ordinance 《遺囑條例》

22. Meaning of die without issue etc.
In a disposition of property, the words die without issue (死後無嗣), or die without leaving issue (死後無遺下後嗣), or have no issue (無嗣), or any other words which may import either a want or failure of issue of any person in his lifetime or at the time of his death, or an indefinite failure of his issue, shall be construed to mean a want or failure of issue in his lifetime or at the time of his death, and not an indefinite failure of issue unless a contrary intention appears from the will.
[cf. 1837 c. 26 s. 29 U.K.]

23. Gifts to children or other issue who leave issue living at the testator’s death
(1) Where—
(a) a will contains a devise or bequest to a child or remoter descendant of the testator; and
(b) the intended beneficiary dies before the testator, leaving issue; and
(c) issue of the intended beneficiary are living at the testator’s death,
then, unless a contrary intention appears from the will, the devise or bequest shall take effect as a devise or bequest to the issue living at the testator’s death.
(2) Where—
(a) a will contains a devise or bequest to a class of persons consisting of children or remoter descendants of the testator; and
(b) a member of the class dies before the testator, leaving issue; and
(c) issue of that member are living at the testator’s death,
then, unless a contrary intention appears from the will, the devise or bequest shall take effect as if the class included the issue of its deceased member living at the testator’s death.
(3) Issue shall take under this section through all degrees, according to their stock, in equal shares if more than one, any gift or share which their parent would have taken and so that no issue shall take whose parent is living at the testator’s death and so capable of taking.
(4) For the purposes of this section a person conceived before the testator’s death and born living thereafter is to be taken to have been living at the testator’s death.
(Replaced 56 of 1995 s. 7)[cf. 1982 c. 53 s. 19 U.K.]

### Wills Ordinance 《遺囑條例》

23A. Rectification
(1) If a court is satisfied that a will is so expressed that it fails to carry out the testator’s intentions, in consequence—
(a) of a clerical error; or
(b) of a failure to understand his instructions,
it may order that the will shall be rectified so as to carry out his intentions.
(2) An application for an order under this section shall not, except with the permission of the court, be made after the end of the period of 6 months from the date on which representation with respect to the estate of the deceased is first taken out.
(3) The provisions of this section shall not render the personal representatives of a deceased person liable for having distributed any part of the estate of the deceased, after the end of the period of 6 months from the date on which representation with respect to the estate of the deceased is first taken out, on the ground that they ought to have taken into account the possibility that the court might permit the making of an application for an order under this section after the end of that period; but this subsection shall not prejudice any power to recover, by reason of the making of an order under this section, any part of the estate so distributed.
(4) In considering for the purposes of this section when representation with respect to the estate of a deceased person was first taken out, a grant limited to part only of the estate shall be left out of account unless a grant limited to the remainder of the estate has previously been made or is made at the same time.
(Added 56 of 1995 s. 8)[cf. 1982 c. 53 s. 20 U.K.]

23B. Interpretation of wills—general provisions as to evidence
(1) This section applies to a will—
(a) in so far as any part of it is meaningless; 
(b) in so far as the language used in any part of it is ambiguous on the face of it; 
(c) in so far as evidence, other than evidence of the testator’s intention, shows that the language used in any part of it is ambiguous in the light of surrounding circumstances. 
(2) In so far as this section applies to a will extrinsic evidence, including evidence of the testator’s intention, may be admitted to assist in its interpretation. 
(Added 56 of 1995 s. 8)[cf. 1982 c. 53 s. 21 U.K.]