2. Replacement of section 2 of Chapter 60

Section 2 of the Wills Ordinance (Chapter 60)

(hereinafter referred to as the “principal enactment”) is hereby repealed and the following section is substituted therefor:–

2. (1) It shall be lawful for any person who has reached the age of eighteen years and residing within or outside Sri Lanka to execute a will bequeathing and disposing any movable and immovable property and all and every estate, right, share or interest in any property which belong to him at the time of death and which, if not so devised, bequeathed or disposed would devolve upon his heirs of such person not legally incapacitated from taking the same as he shall seem fit.

Every testator shall have full power to make such testamentary disposition as he shall feel disposed, and in the exercise of such right to exclude any child, parent, relative, or descendant, or to disinherit or omit to mention any such person, without assigning any reason for such exclusion, disinheritance, or omission, any law, usage, or custom now or herefore in force in Sri Lanka to the contrary notwithstanding.”.