ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES ACT Chapter 6:01 in all respects as the same might lawfully have been done prior to the 5th July, 1907. (3) All curators so appointed shall be called curators nominate. 70 Tutors testamentary (1) All tutors nominated and appointed by fathers or mothers in manner aforesaid to their minor children shall be called tutors testamentary, whether such tutors have been nominated and appointed by wills or by any other deeds duly executed by such fathers or mothers. (2) No tutor testamentary shall assume or enter upon the administration or management of the estate or property of any minor, except in so far as it may be necessary for the preservation and safe custody of the same, until letters of confirmation have been granted to him by the Master in the form C in the Second Schedule. 71 Mode of granting letters of confirmation (1) The Master shall, on application in writing being made to him for that purpose, grant letters of confirmation as tutor testamentary to every person who has been lawfully nominated and appointed tutor testamentary to any minor by any valid will or deed. (2) Whenever it comes to the knowledge of the Master that any person who has been nominated tutor testamentary by any valid will or deed to any minor possessed of property has not applied for letters of confirmation, the Master shall, by writing, require such person to inform him whether he is willing to act as such tutor testamentary and if he consents so to do shall grant him letters of confirmation accordingly. (3) No letters of confirmation as tutor testamentary shall in any case be granted to any person who is at the time by law incapacitated or disqualified to hold the office of tutor. (4) Letters of confirmation shall not be granted to any such tutor who is at the time of making such application or resides outside Zimbabwe. 72 Letters of confirmation to curators nominate (1) No curator nominate shall assume or enter upon the administration or management of any estate or property, except in so far as may be necessary for the preservation and safe custody of the same, until letters of confirmation have been granted to him by the Master. (2) In order to obtain the grant of such letters of confirmation proceedings shall be taken by any such person, and by the Master in like manner in all respects, as is provided by section seventy-one as to the granting of letters of confirmation to tutors testamentary, and such letters shall be in the form D in the Second Schedule. 40 Reissue