following provisions— (a) the will may be written wholly by the testator with his or her own hand, and in that case it need not be signed nor attested; (b) the will may be written wholly or in part by another person, and signed by the testator, and in that case it need not be attested; (c) if the instrument purporting to be a will is written wholly or in part by another person, and is not signed by the testator, it shall be considered to be his or her will if it is shown that it was written by the testator’s directions, or that he or she recognised it as his or her will; but if it appears on the face of the instrument that the execution of it in the manner intended by the testator was not completed, the instrument shall not, by reason of that circumstance, be invalid, if his or her nonexecution of it can be reasonably ascribed to some cause other than the abandonment of the testamentary intentions expressed in the instrument; (d) if the testator has written instructions for the preparation of his or her will, but has died before it could be prepared and executed, such instructions shall be considered to constitute his or her will; (e) if the testator has, in the presence of two witnesses, given verbal instructions for the preparation of his or her will, and they have been reduced into writing in his or her lifetime, but he or she has died before the instrument could be prepared and executed, such instructions shall be considered to constitute his or her will, although they may not have been reduced into writing in his or her presence, nor read over to him or her; (f) a testator may make a will by word of mouth by declaring his or her intentions before two witnesses present at the same time; (g) a will made by word of mouth shall be null at the expiration of one month after the testator has ceased to be entitled to make a privileged will. PART X—ATTESTATION, REVOCATION, ALTERATION AND REVIVAL OF WILLS. 54. Effect of gift to attesting witnesses. (1) A will shall not be considered as insufficiently attested by reason of any benefit given by the will, either by way of bequest or by way of appointment, to any person attesting it, or to his wife or her husband, but the bequest or appointment shall be void so far as concerns the person so