Probate and Administration Act · s 6

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6. The Probate Officer may in accordance with the pro-General visions of this Act-
~~:t;a~eof
(a) issue grants of probate or letters of adminis-tration in respect of the estates of deceased per-sons having assets within Brunei;
Officer

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Power of altering probate, etc., already granted
Sealing of documents

Probate and Administration
(b) without personally taking out administra-tion of the estate of a deceased person, make such orders and give such relief in connection therewith as the nature of the case may require, in respect of any of the following questions or matters -
(i) any question affecting the rights or interests of any person claiming to be creditor, devisee, legatee, next-~f-kin or cestui que trust;
(ii) the ascertainment of any class of creditors, legatees, devisees, next-of-kin or other in-terested persons;
(iii) the furnishing of any particular accounts by the executors or adthinistrators or trustees, and the vouching (where necessary) of such accounts;
(iv) the payment to the Probate Officer of any money in the hands of executors or adminis-trators or trustees;
(v) directing the executors or administrators or trustees to do or abstain from doing any par-ticular act in their character as such executors or administrators or trustees;
(vi) the appr~val of any sale, purchase, comprom-ise or other transaction; and
(vii) any question arising in the administration of the estate or trust.

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s 6

The Probate Officer may in accordance with the pro-General visions of this Act-

~~:t;a~eof

(a)

issue grants of probate or letters of adminis-tration in respect of the estates of deceased per-sons having assets within Brunei;

Officer

Power of altering probate, etc., already granted

Sealing of documents

Probate and Administration

(b)

without personally taking out administra-tion of the estate of a deceased person, make such orders and give such relief in connection therewith as the nature of the case may require, in respect of any of the following questions or matters -

(i)

any question affecting the rights or interests of any person claiming to be creditor, devisee, legatee, next-~f-kin or cestui que trust;

(ii)

the ascertainment of any class of creditors, legatees, devisees, next-of-kin or other in-terested persons;

(iii)

the furnishing of any particular accounts by the executors or adthinistrators or trustees, and the vouching (where necessary) of such accounts;

(iv)

the payment to the Probate Officer of any money in the hands of executors or adminis-trators or trustees;

(v)

directing the executors or administrators or trustees to do or abstain from doing any par-ticular act in their character as such executors or administrators or trustees;

(vi)

the appr~val of any sale, purchase, comprom-ise or other transaction; and

(vii)

any question arising in the administration of the estate or trust.