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Last Updated: 1 December 2016
AN ACT TO DECLARE THE LAW RELATING TO THE PROPERTY OF MARRIED WOMEN
[MWP 8] As to stock etc to which a married woman is entitled8
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All deposits in any savings bank or in any other bank, all annuities and all sums which at the commencement of this Act are standing in the sole name of a married woman and all shares, stock, debentures, debenture stock or other interests of or in any corporation, company or public body, municipal, commercial or otherwise, or of or in any industrial, provident, friendly, benefit, building or loan society, which at the commencement of this Act are standing in her name shall be deemed, unless and until the contrary be shown, to be the separate property of such married woman, and the fact that any such deposit, annuity, sum forming part of any stocks or funds, share, stock, debenture, debenture stock or other interest as aforesaid is standing in the sole name of a married woman shall be sufficient prima facie evidence that she is beneficially entitled thereto for her separate use so as to authorise and empower her to receive or transfer the same and to receive the dividends, interest and profits thereof without the concurrence of her husband.