Chapter 6:01 ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES his principal business, and shall state in that notice the period during which and the place at which the account will lie open for inspection. (7) The magistrate shall cause to be affixed in some public place in or about his office a list of all such accounts as have been lodged in his office and the date on which each such account will be transmitted to the Master; and upon the expiry of the period allowed for inspection he shall endorse on each account his certificate that the account has lain open in his office for inspection in accordance with this section and shall transmit the account to the Master. (8) Any person interested in the estate may at any time before the expiration of the period allowed for inspection lodge with the Master in writing any objection, with the reasons thereof, to that account. (9) The Master shall consider such account, together with any objections that may have been duly lodged, and shall give such directions thereon as he may deem fit: Provided that— (i) any person aggrieved by any such direction of the Master may, within thirty days after the date of the Master’s direction, and after giving notice to the executor and to any person affected by the direction, apply by motion to the High Court for an order to set aside the direction and the High Court may make such order as it may think fit; [Proviso amended by section 4 of Act 12/1997.] (ii) when any such direction affects the interests of a person who has not lodged such an objection, the account so amended shall again lie open for inspection in the manner and with the notice aforesaid unless the person so affected consents in writing to the account being acted upon. (10) When an account has been open to inspection and no objection has been lodged, or if any objection has been lodged and has not been sustained or has been withdrawn, or the person objecting has not applied to the High Court within the time prescribed the executor shall proceed to pay out the creditors and heirs and shall lodge with the Master the vouchers in support of the account. [Subsection amended by section 4 of Act 12/1997.] (11) Upon the final and complete liquidation of the estate to the satisfaction of the Master the executor shall then be entitled to obtain his discharge from the Master as such executor. 53 Summons if account has not been lodged within six months (1) As often as any executor fails to lodge with the Master the account mentioned in section fifty-two, the Master or any person having an interest in such estate may at any time, after the expiration of six months from the day on which the letters of administration were granted to such executor, summon him to show cause before the High Court why such account has not been so lodged as aforesaid. [Subsection amended by section 4 of Act 12/1997.] September 2000-09-27 27

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