ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES ACT Chapter 6:01 financial institution and, subject to such terms and conditions as the Master may specify, to withdraw from the account from time to time such amounts as may be needed for the maintenance of the minor, mentally disordered or intellectually handicapped person or person absent from Zimbabwe, as the case may be, to whom the sum of money devolved. (Subsection inserted by s. 2 of Act No. 6 of 1997.) (5) This section shall not be taken to limit any power possessed by the High Court to order any sum of money referred to in subsection (1), (2) or (3) to be paid to any person for any purpose. (Subsection inserted by s. 2 of Act No. 6 of 1997.) 52 Administration and distribution accounts (1) Every executor shall administer and distribute the estate in respect of which he is appointed according to law and the provisions of any valid will relating to that estate. (2) As soon as may be after the expiration of the period notified in the Gazette in manner hereinbefore in this Act provided, and not later than six months from the day on which the letters of administration were issued to him, or within such further time as the Master may upon sufficient cause being shown allow, the executor shall frame and lodge with the Master an account showing the administration and distribution of the estate up to the date when the account was lodged, together with a true copy of that account. (3) If any such account is not the final account it shall set forth all debts due to the estate and still outstanding and all property still unrealized, and the reasons why the same have not been collected or realized, as the case may be. (4) The executor shall from time to time, as the Master may direct, render periodical accounts of his administration and distribution until the estate is finally liquidated. (5) Every executor’s account, except in such cases as the Master may rule otherwise, shall lie open for inspection— (a) at the office of the Master if the deceased resided or carried on his principal business within the area defined in the First Schedule; or (b) at the office of the Assistant Master if the deceased resided or carried on his principal business outside the area defined in the First Schedule; and if the deceased resided or carried on his principal business in any district other than the district of Harare or Bulawayo, a duplicate thereof shall lie open at the office of the magistrate for the district in which the deceased resided or carried on his principal business, for inspection for not less than three weeks by any person interested in the estate. (6) The executor shall give due notice that the account is so open to inspection by advertisement in the Gazette and in a newspaper circulating in the district wherein the deceased resided or carried on 26 Reissue