### Wills Ordinance 《遺囑條例》

9. Will not void on account of incompetency of witness
If a person who attests the execution of a will is, at the time of execution or at any time afterwards, incompetent to be admitted a witness to prove the execution, the will shall not on that account be invalid.
[cf. 1837 c. 26 s. 14 U.K.]

10. Avoidance of gifts to attesting witnesses and their spouses
(1) If a person attests the execution of a will, and any disposition of or affecting any property (other than charges and directions for the payment of any debt) is given or made by the will to that person or his spouse, that disposition shall, so far only as concerns the person attesting the execution of the will, or the spouse of that person, or any person claiming under that person or spouse, be void.
(2) The person so attesting shall be admitted as a witness to prove the execution of the will, or to prove the validity or invalidity thereof, notwithstanding such disposition.
(3) For the purposes of subsection (1) of this section the attestation of a will by a person to whom or to whose spouse there is given or made any such disposition as is described in that subsection shall be disregarded if the will is duly executed without his attestation and without that of any other such person. [cf. 1968 c. 28 s. 1 U.K.]
[cf. 1837 c. 26 s. 15 U.K.]

11. Creditor attesting will charging estate with debts admissible as witness
If by will any property is charged with any debt and a creditor, or the spouse of a creditor, whose debt is so charged, attests the execution of the will, the creditor, notwithstanding such charge, shall be admitted a witness to prove the execution of the will, or to prove the validity or invalidity thereof.
[cf. 1837 c. 26 s. 16 U.K.]

12. Executor admissible as witness
A person shall not, by reason only of his being an executor of a will, be incompetent to be admitted a witness to prove the execution of such will, or a witness to prove the validity or invalidity thereof.
[cf. 1837 c. 26 s. 17 U.K.]

### Wills Ordinance 《遺囑條例》

13. Modes of revocation of will
(1) No will or part of a will shall be revoked otherwise than—
(a) by marriage as provided by section 14;
(b) by another valid will;
(c) by a written revocation executed in a manner in which the testator could validly execute a will; or
(d) by the burning, tearing or otherwise destroying of it by the testator, or by some person in his presence and by his direction, with the intention of revoking it.
(2) No will shall be revoked by any presumption of an intention on the ground of an alteration in circumstances.
(Replaced 56 of 1995 s. 4)[cf. 1837 c. 26 ss. 19 & 20 U.K.]

14. Will to be revoked by marriage, except in certain cases
(1) Subject to subsections (2), (3) and (4), a will shall be revoked by the testator’s marriage.
(2) A disposition in a will in exercise of a power of appointment shall take effect notwithstanding the testator’s subsequent marriage unless the property so appointed would in default of appointment pass to his personal representatives.
(3) Where it appears from a will that at the time it was made the testator was expecting to be married to a particular person and that he intended that the will should not be revoked by the marriage, the will shall not be revoked by his marriage to that person.
(4) Where it appears from a will that at the time it was made the testator was expecting to be married to a particular person and that he intended that a disposition in the will should not be revoked by his marriage to that person—
(a) that disposition shall take effect notwithstanding the marriage; and
(b) any other disposition in the will shall take effect also, unless it appears from the will that the testator intended the disposition to be revoked by the marriage.
(5) In this section, marriage (婚姻) has the same meaning as in section 2 of the Married Persons Status Ordinance (Cap. 182).
(Replaced 56 of 1995 s. 4)[cf. 1982 c. 53 s. 18 U.K.]

### Wills Ordinance 《遺囑條例》

15. Effect of dissolution or annulment of marriage
(1) Where, after a testator has made a will, his marriage is validly dissolved, annulled or declared void—
(a) the will shall take effect as if any appointment of the former spouse as an executor or as the executor and trustee of the will were omitted; and
(b) any devise or bequest to the former spouse shall lapse,
except in so far as a contrary intention appears from the will.
(2) Subsection (1)(b) is without prejudice to any right of the former spouse to apply for provision for maintenance under the Matrimonial Causes Ordinance (Cap. 179).
(3) Where—
(a) by the terms of a will an interest in remainder is subject to a life interest; and 
(b) the life interest lapses by virtue of subsection (1)(b),
the interest in remainder shall be treated as if it had not been subject to the life interest and, if it was contingent upon the termination of the life interest, as if it had not been so contingent. 
(Replaced 56 of 1995 s. 4)[cf. 1982 c. 53 s. 18A U.K.]

16. Alterations in will after execution
(1) No obliteration, interlineation, or other alteration made in a will after execution shall be valid or have any effect, except so far as the words or effect of the will before such alteration are not apparent, unless such alteration is executed by the testator in a manner in which he could validly execute a will at the time such alteration was made. (Amended 56 of 1995 s. 5)
(1A) For the purpose of subsection (1), the words or effect of a will are apparent if they can be discovered by any means. (Added 56 of 1995 s. 5)
(2) The will, with such alteration as part thereof, shall be deemed to be duly executed if the signature of the testator, and the signature of each witness if any is required, is made—
(a) in the margin or on some other part of the will opposite or near to such alteration; or
(b) at the foot or end of or opposite to a memorandum referring to such alteration and written at the end or some other part of the will.
[cf. 1837 c. 26 s. 21 U.K.]