Section 6Part 0 —
Execution of wills
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No will shall be valid unless it shall be in writing, and executed in manner hereinafter mentioned; that is to say, it shall be signed at the foot or end thereof by the testator, or by some other person, in the testator's presence, and by the testator's direction; and such signature shall be made or acknowledged by the testator in the presence of two or more witnesses present at the same time; and such witnesses shall attest and subscribe the will in the presence of the testator, but no form of attestation shall be necessary. Every will shall, so far only as regards the position of the signature of the testator, or of the person signing for the testator as aforesaid, be deemed to be valid within this Act if the signature shall so be placed at, after, following, under, beside or opposite to the end of the will, that it shall be apparent on the face of the will that the testator intended to give effect by such signature to the writing signed as the testator's will; and no such will shall be affected by the circumstance that the signature shall not follow or be immediately after the foot or end of the will; or by the circumstance that a blank space shall intervene between the concluding word of the will and the signature; or by the circumstance that the signature shall be placed among the words of the testimonium clause, or of the clause of attestation, or shall follow, be after or under the clause of attestation, either with or without a blank space intervening or shall follow, be after, under or beside the names, or one of the names, of the subscribing witnesses; or by the circumstance that the signature shall be on a side, or page, or other portion of the paper or papers containing the will whereupon no clause or paragraph, or disposing part of the will shall be written above the signature; or by the circumstance that there shall appear to be sufficient space on or at the bottom of the preceding side or page or other portion of the same paper on which the will is written to contain the signature; and the enumeration of the above circumstances shall not restrict the generality of the above enactment; but no signature under this Act shall be operative to give effect to any disposition or direction which is underneath, or which follows it, nor shall it give effect to any disposition or direction inserted after the signature shall be made.