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  • (a) an instrument provides for the disposition of property in the event that a person named in the instrument
    • (i) dies before another person,
    • (ii) dies at the same time as another person, or
    • (iii) dies in circumstances that make it uncertain which of them survived the other, and
  • (b) the named person dies at the same time as the other person or in circumstances that make it uncertain which of them survived the other,
  • for the purpose of that disposition, the event for which the instrument provides is conclusively deemed to have occurred.

2009-13-6, effective March 31, 2014 (B.C. Reg. 148/2013).

CROSS REFERENCES AND OTHER SOURCES OF INFORMATION

See also ss. 7 to 9 of the Wills, Estates and Succession Act for additional provisions with respect to survivorship.