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CHAPTER 6:01
ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES ACT
Ord. 6,1907; Acts 12/1929, 3/1932, 2/1935, 37/1938 (ss. 19 and 20),
29/1951 (s. 2), 25/1956 (ss. 6 and 7), 3/1957, 15/1958, 9/1962, 14/1962
(s. 2), 22/1964 (s. 54), 30/1969, 29/1970 (s. 2), 42/1971 (s. 5), 77/1971
(s. 21), 57/1972 (s. 4), 39/1973 (s. 52) 19/1977, 39/1978 (s. 13), 41/1978
(s. 31), 17/1979 (s. 13), 15/1981, 29/1981, 15/1982, 11/1991 (s. 21),
9/1995, 6/19971, 9/19972, 12/1997 (s. 4)3, 16/1998 (s. 68)4, 9/1999
(s. 82)5, 22/2001 (s. 4)6; R.G.N.s 26/1963, 386/1964, 217/1970;
S.I. 574/1981 (and by 789/1981), 638/1981.
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
PART I
PPRELIMINARY
Section
1. Short title.
2. Interpretation.
PART II
MMASTER’S OOFFICE
3.
4.
Master and other officers.
Offices of record.
PART III
EESTATES OF DDECEASED PPERSONS
5.
6.
Death Notices
Death notices to Master, Assistant Master or magistrate.
If death notice defective executor to furnish further information.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
Wills
Deposit of wills with Master.
Transmission of wills.
Search for concealed will.
Order for delivery of will.
Registration of wills at testator’s death.
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3
4
5
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Date of commencement of Act 6/1997: 1st November 1997.
Date of commencement of Act 9/1997: 10th October 1997.
(NOTE that Act 9/1997 amended s. 68 only of Cap.6:01, and that s. 68, as
so amended, was in turn repealed and replaced by s. 3 of Act 6/1997.)
Date of commencement of Act 12/1997: 7th November 1997.
Date of commencement of Act No. 16 of 1998: 1st March 2000.
Banking Act [Chapter 24:20] (with effect from 1st August, 2000).
Criminal Penalties Amendment Act, 2001 (with effect from 20th May,
2002).