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'''Queensland'''
The property may include any property to which (a) person is entitled upon death; (b) persons’s personal representatives becomes entitled on his death. It shall not include property of which the person is trustee at the time of the person's death. http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/qld/consol_act/sa1981138/s8.html


'''New South Wales'''
The property may include any property to which (a) person is entitled upon death; (b) persons’s personal representatives becomes entitled on his death. It shall not include property of which the person is trustee at the time of the person's death. http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/sa2006138/s4.html


'''Northern Territory'''
The property may include any property to which (a) person is entitled upon death; (b) persons’s personal representatives becomes entitled on his death. It shall not include property of which the person is trustee at the time of the person's death. {http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nt/consol_act/wa91/s6.html


'''South Australia'''
All real estate and all personal estate to which the person is entitled either at law or in equity at the time of his or her death can be disposed of by will and this power extends to any estate pur autre vie, every contingent, executory or other future interest in any real or personal estate, every right of entry for condition broken and any such estate which a testor may entitle at the time of his death. {http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/sa/consol_act/wa193691/s4.html


'''Tasmania'''
A person may dispose by will of property to which (a) the person is entitled at the time of his death; (b) his personal representative becomes entitled after his death; notwithstanding the claim that the entitlement did not exist at the date of making the will. A person may not dispose by will of property of which the person was trustee at the time of the death of the person. http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/tas/consol_act/wa200891/s6.html


'''Victoria'''
The property may include any property to which (a) person is entitled upon death, irrespective of existence of entitlement on the date of making of will; (b) persons’s personal representatives becomes entitled on his death; excluding property of which the testator is trustee. {http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/vic/consol_act/wa199791/s4.html


'''Western Australia'''
A person may, by a will dispose of property (whether acquired before or after the making of the will) to which (a) person is entitled at the time of the his death; (b) in exercise of a power of appointment the person is entitled or able to dispose of by will; and (c) appoint a guardian of any infant child of the person. http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/wa/consol_act/wa197091/s6.html


'''ACT'''
All real estate and all personal estate to which the person is entitled either at law or in equity at the time of his or her death can be disposed of by will and this power extends to any estate pur autre vie, every contingent, executory or other future interest in any real or personal estate, every right of entry for condition broken and any such estate which a testor may entitle at the time of his death. http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/act/consol_act/wa196891/s7.html


'''Draft Wills Bill 1997'''
The property may include any property to which (a) person is entitled upon death; (b) persons’s personal representatives becomes entitled on his death. It shall not include property of which the person is trustee at the time of the person's death. http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/lrc.nsf/pages/R85APPENDIXA
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