(a) The following acts and parts of acts are repealed absolutely:

The act of April 21, 1856 (P.L. 486, No. 511), entitled “A supplement to an act relating to the sale and conveyance of Real Estate, passed April eighteenth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.”¹

The act of May 19, 1874 (P.L. 206, No. 134), entitled “An act relating to the organization and jurisdiction of orphans' courts, and to establish a separate orphans' court in and for counties having more than one hundred and fifty thousand inhabitants, and to provide for the election of judges thereof.”²

Section 2, act of June 14, 1897 (P.L. 144), entitled “An act to amend the second section of an act, entitled ‘An act relative to the sale and conveyance of real estate,’ approved the eighteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, extending the provisions thereof to real estate upon which are limited vested remainders which are liable to open and let in after born children, and validating sales of real estate heretofore made by proceedings under said act of lands and tenements subject to such remainders.”³

Section 3, act of June 15, 1897 (P.L. 159, No. 133), entitled “An act authorizing the several orphans' courts of this Commonwealth to decree the sale, mortgaging, leasing or conveyance upon ground-rent, of lands devised or held with remainder to a class of persons, some or all of whom are unborn, and to validate certain sales and conveyances heretofore made by decree of court in such cases.”⁴

The last paragraph of section 9, act of June 7, 1917 (P.L. 363), known as the “Orphans' Court Act of 1917.”⁵

The act of June 7, 1917 (P.L. 388), known as the “Revised Price Act of 1917.”⁶

Section 24, act of June 7, 1917 (P.L. 447), known as the “Fiduciaries Act of 1917.”⁷

The act of May 7, 1923 (P.L. 150), entitled “An act to permit the service of writs of scire facias in certain cases in any county of the Commonwealth; and providing by whom such service shall be made.”⁸

The act of April 24, 1929 (P.L. 647), entitled “An act supplementary to the laws of the Commonwealth relating to guardians and committees of minors, weak-minded persons, lunatics, and habitual drunkards; and regulating the filing and notice of accounts, and the compensation and removal of guardians and committees of veterans, and of minor children, and incompetent dependents of veterans.”⁹

The act of June 19, 1941 (P.L. 138), entitled “An act providing for the disposition of property where there is no sufficient evidence that persons have died otherwise than simultaneously and to make uniform the law with reference thereto.”¹⁰

The act of August 5, 1941 (P.L. 816), entitled “An act regulating and limiting the rights of slayers in real and personal property and in the benefits from insurance policies arising out of or as a result of the death of the person slain; protecting and saving the rights of purchasers and insurers dealing with slayers without notice of the slaying, and repealing certain legislation.”¹¹

The act of March 20, 1942 (P.L. 13), entitled “An act to provide relief in cases where fiduciaries are in military, service; authorizing the court to appoint a substituted fiduciary pro tem in such cases or to allow the remaining fiduciaries to act; authorizing security to be entered by and compensation paid to such substituted fiduciaries pro tem, and regulating the powers and liabilities of the fiduciary in military service and of the substituted fiduciary pro tem.”¹²

The act of May 24, 1945 (P.L. 944), entitled “An act providing that when the contract of a fiduciary is made by him, or approved by court, inadequacy of price or an offer to deal on other terms shall not relieve the fiduciary of his obligation or constitute ground for any court to set aside the contract or to refuse to enforce it.”¹³

The act of April 24, 1947 (P.L. 80), known as the “Intestate Act of 1947.”¹⁴

The act of April 24, 1947 (P.L. 89), known as the “Wills Act of 1947.”¹⁵

The act of April 24, 1947 (P.L. 100), known as the “Estates Act of 1947.”¹⁶

The act of June 5, 1947 (P.L. 477), entitled “An act relating to trusts heretofore or hereafter created primarily for the benefit of employes under any stock, bonus, pension, disability or death benefit, profit-sharing or other employe-benefit plan, and the application with respect thereto of any statute or rule of law against perpetuities, accumulations or the suspension of the power of alienation.”¹⁷

The act of July 3, 1947 (P.L. 1283), known as the “Principal and Income Act of 1947.”¹⁸

The act of April 18, 1949 (P.L. 512), known as the “Fiduciaries Act of 1949.”¹⁹

The act of May 26, 1949 (P.L. 1828), known as the “Fiduciaries Investment Act of 1949.”²⁰

The act of June 28, 1951 (P.L. 612), known as the “Incompetents' Estates Act of 1951.”²¹

The act of June 28, 1951 (P.L. 638), known as the “Register of Wills Act of 1951.”²²

The act of August 10, 1951 (P.L. 1163), known as the “Orphans' Court Act of 1951.”²³

The act of August 24, 1951 (P.L. 1405), known as the “Estate Tax Apportionment Act of 1951.”²⁴

The act of May 1, 1953 (P.L. 190), entitled “An act authorizing fiduciaries to receive compensation from trust principal before the end of their service and before the end of their trusts, and providing for allowances of compensation to fiduciaries out of trust income or trust principal or both, either during the continuance or at the end of their trusts.”²⁵

The act of July 28, 1953 (P.L. 659), entitled “An act empowering a court in which is pending an action on behalf of the estate of a decedent to make an order approving a compromise or settlement of such action; and to approve an agreement for counsel fees and other proper expenses incident to such action; and providing that the order of such court shall not be collaterally attacked in the Orphans' Court having jurisdiction of the accounts of the personal representative of such decedent's estate; and requiring such personal representative to file a copy of such order in the office of the Register of Wills and to enter additional security in certain cases.”²⁶

The act of July 28, 1953 (P.L. 674), entitled “An act to authorize courts to direct fiduciaries to make partial distribution or to pay into the State Treasury without escheat moneys, the use, benefit, enjoyment or control of which would not be available to certain non-resident beneficiaries entitled thereto; and providing remedies to such beneficiaries under certain conditions.”²⁷

The act of June 21, 1957 (P.L. 358, No. 199), known as the “Pennsylvania Uniform Gifts to Minors Act.”²⁸

The act of September 21, 1959 (P.L. 923), entitled “An act providing for combining trusts for the benefit of employes of the same employer upon approval by the court having jurisdiction of any one of such trusts.”²⁹

The act of December 1, 1959 (P.L. 1637, No. 602), entitled “An act authorizing trustees of employe benefit plans to transfer the assets of such plans, in trust, to corporate trustees for investment, reinvestment and maintenance; and providing for the powers, duties and liabilities of such trustees.”³⁰

The act of August 11, 1967 (P.L. 224, No. 80), entitled “An act authorizing payment under pension, profit sharing, stock bonus, deferred compensation, disability, death benefit and other employe benefit plans to the named beneficiary free of claims by third parties.”³¹

The act of July 18, 1969 (P.L. 163), entitled “An act relating to property held for orphan beneficiaries of charitable uses or trusts administered by cities of the first class; making the agency of the city which administers the charitable use or trust, the guardian of the person and estate of the orphan.”³²

The act of December 16, 1969 (P.L. 366), known as the “Uniform Anatomical Gift Act.”³³

(b) The following acts and parts of acts are expressly saved from repeal:

The act of March 31, 1812 (P.L. 259), entitled “An act concerning joint tenancy.”³⁴

The act of April 18, 1945 (P.L. 253, No. 113), entitled “An act providing for the appointment of guardians in inter vivos deeds, or gifts, or under insurance, or annuity policies.”³⁵

The act of September 29, 1951 (P.L. 1645), entitled, as amended, “An act authorizing the courts of the several counties, upon application therefor, to place documents defined as historical documents in the temporary custody of certain associations maintaining facilities for public display of historical writings; conferring powers and imposing duties on various county officers.”³⁶

(c) Except as provided in subsection (b), all other acts and parts of acts are repealed insofar as they are inconsistent herewith.