Probate and Administration Act · 1984 Revised Edition · Part IV · Rules for Administration of Property
Section 63
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
Any executor or administrator may apply to the
Probate Officer for an order limiting the time for creditors and others to send in their claims against the estate of the testator or intestate, and specifying what notices are to be given of the making of such order and of the time thereby limited; and the Probate Officer may make such order thereon as he thinks fit.
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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Where an executor or administrator has given the notices specified in any such order, he shall, at the ex-piration of the time limited thereby for sending in such claims, be at liberty to distribute the assets of the testator or intestate, or any part thereof, amongst the parties entitled thereto, having regard to the claims of which he has then notice, and shall not be liable for the assets, or any part thereof, so distributed to any person of whose claim he has not had notice at the time of distribution of the assets or a part thereof, as the case may be.
Nothing in this section shall prejudice the right of any creditor or claimant to follow the assets, or any part thereof, into the hands of any persons who may have re-ceived the same respectiv~ly, nor the operation of any writ-ten law relating to trustees.
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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