Probate and Administration Act · 1984 Revised Edition · Part II
Section 6
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
The Probate Officer may in accordance with the pro-General visions of this Act-
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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issue grants of probate or letters of adminis-tration in respect of the estates of deceased per-sons having assets within Brunei;
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Power of altering probate, etc., already granted
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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 -
any question affecting the rights or interests of any person claiming to be creditor, devisee, legatee, next-~f-kin or cestui que trust;
the ascertainment of any class of creditors, legatees, devisees, next-of-kin or other in-terested persons;
the furnishing of any particular accounts by the executors or adthinistrators or trustees, and the vouching (where necessary) of such accounts;
the payment to the Probate Officer of any money in the hands of executors or adminis-trators or trustees;
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;
the appr~val of any sale, purchase, comprom-ise or other transaction; and
any question arising in the administration of the estate or trust.
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;
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