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ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1955 - SECT 10

Rights of brothers and sisters and their issue.

10.(1) If an intestate dies leaving neither issue nor parent, his estate
shall, subject to the right of the surviving spouse, if any, be distributed
between his brothers and sisters in equal shares, and if any brother or sister
predeceases the intestate the surviving issue of the deceased brother or
sister shall take per stirpes the share that brother or sister would have
taken if he or she had survived the intestate.

(2) If an intestate dies leaving neither issue nor parent nor brother nor
sister, his estate shall, subject to the rights of the surviving spouse, if
any, be distributed per stirpes among the issue of his brothers and sisters.

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