Probate and Administration Act · 1984 Revised Edition · Part III
32. Administration
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
Where a person dies wholly intestate as to his person-al estate but without having appointed an executor thereof willing and competent to take probate, or where the execu-tor is, at the time of the death of such person, resident out of
probate
"probate" and "letters of administration" include confirmation in Scotland, and any instrument hav-ing in any other part of the Commonwealth the same effect which under English law is given to probate and letters of administration respectively;
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Brunei, or where it appears to the Probate Officer to be necessary or convenient to appoint some person to be the administrator of the personal estate of the deceased person or of any part of such estate, other than the person who, if this Act had not been passed, would by law have been enti-tled to a grant of administration of such personal estate, it shall be lawful for the Probate Officer to appoint such per-son as the Probate Officer thinks fit to be such administra-tor, on his giving such security, if any, as may be required under this Part or as the Probate Officer may direct, and every such administration may be limited in such manner as the Probate Officer thinks fit.
Terms defined in s 77
probate
Defined · s 77"probate" and "letters of administration" include confirmation in Scotland, and any instrument hav-ing in any other part of the Commonwealth the same effect which under English law is given to probate and letters of administration respectively;
Part IV
Rules for Administration of Property
Part VI
Sealing of Grants Made by British Courts Outside Brunei
Part VII