Chapter 6:01 ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES Assistant Master shall be an office of record for the remainder of Zimbabwe: Provided that such of the records filed in the office of the Assistant Master as the Master may specify shall, if the Master so directs, be transferred for safekeeping to the office of the Master or such other central office of record as he may specify. (2) Any provision of this Act or any other enactment which requires any document to be lodged with the Master shall— (a) if such document relates to a death which occurred outside the area defined in the First Schedule or to the death of a person who at the time of his death was ordinarily residing outside such area; or (b) if such document is required to be lodged by a person residing outside such area; be read and construed as requiring such document to be lodged with the Assistant Master. PART III EESTATES OF DDECEASED PPERSONS Death Notices 5 Death notices to Master, Assistant Master or magistrate (1) Whenever any person dies leaving any property in possession, reversion or expectancy or leaving a will, the nearest relative or connection of the deceased who is at or near the place of death, or in default of any such near relative or connection, the person who at or immediately after the death has the chief charge of the house in or of the place on which the death occurs shall, within fourteen days thereafter, cause a notice of death to be framed in the form A in the Second Schedule, and shall cause that notice, signed by himself, to be delivered or transmitted— (a) if the death occurs in Harare or the district thereof, to the Master; (b) if the death occurs in Bulawayo or the district thereof, to the Assistant Master; (c) if the death occurs in any other district, to the magistrate for that district. A notice delivered or transmitted under this subsection to the Master or Assistant Master shall in all cases be accompanied by a duplicate or fair and true copy thereof and, if delivered or transmitted to a magistrate, by two duplicate or fair and true copies thereof. (2) Every magistrate to whom such notice as aforesaid is given shall cause the duplicate copy thereof to be examined and compared with the original, and if need be corrected, and shall authenticate such duplicate or copy with his signature. (3) The magistrate shall file and register the same and shall forthwith transmit the original notice— (a) to the Master if the death occurred within the area defined in the First Schedule; September 2000-09-27 7