ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES ACT
Chapter 6:01
inheritance from the estate of such person’s deceased spouse,
intends to marry again, such person shall, whether the marriage is
by special licence or after publication of banns, obtain a certificate
from and under the hand of the Master to the following effect—
(a) if the estate of the deceased spouse or the joint estate of the
deceased spouse and the surviving parent is of the value of two
hundred dollars and upwards, a certificate that the amount of
inheritance due to such minor child aforesaid from and out of the
estate aforesaid has been paid into the Guardian’s Fund or
otherwise secured;
(b) if any such estate is in value under two hundred dollars, a
certificate stating such fact.
(2) Every such certificate shall be delivered to the marriage officer
or minister of religion before whom such marriage is intended to be
solemnized.
(3) Any such person as is mentioned in subsection (1) who marries
again without obtaining such certificate as is required by such
subsection shall forfeit, at the instance of the Master or of such child
aforesaid when he or she attains the age of eighteen years, a sum
equal to one-fourth of such person’s share in the joint estate of such
person and the deceased spouse aforesaid for the benefit of any
such child, and shall, in addition, be guilty of an offence and liable to
the appropriate penalty prescribed in section one hundred and
fourteena fine not exceeding level five or to imprisonment for a
period not exceeding six months.
]Subsection amended by s. 4 of Act 22/2001.]
(4) Any marriage officer or minister of religion who solemnizes any
such marriage as is in this section mentioned, unless there has been
first delivered to him a certificate as therein mentioned, shall, in
addition to any other liability, be guilty of an offence
appropriate penalty prescribed in section one hundred and
and liable to a fine not exceeding level four or to imprisonment for a
period not exceeding three months or to both such fine and such
imprisonment.
[Subsection amended by s. 4 of Act 22/2001.]
91 Prohibition of alienation of immovable property by tutor or
curator
No tutor, either testamentary or dative, and no curator, either
nominate or dative, or curator bonis shall sell, alienate or mortgage
any immovable property belonging to any minor or forming part of
any estate under the guardianship of such tutor or curator, unless
the High Court or any judge thereof has authorized such sale,
alienation or mortgage or unless the person by whom any such tutor
testamentary or curator nominate has been appointed has directed
such sale, alienation or mortgage to be made.
[Section amended by section 4 of Act 12/1997.]
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