ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES ACT
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Administrators Act [Chapter 27:20] or his registration under that
Act was suspended.
[Subsection inserted by section 68 of Act 16/1998.]
(4) Any person who is aggrieved by a decision of the Master to
revoke or annul letters of administration in terms of subsection (3)
may appeal against the decision to the Court within the time and in
the manner prescribed in rules of court.
[Subsection inserted by section 68 of Act 16/1998.]
79 Appointment of curator dative of estate or property of person
whose whereabouts are unknown
(1) If it comes to the knowledge of the Master that there is within
Zimbabwe any property belonging to any person whose whereabouts
are unknown, and whom he believes to be permanently absent from
Zimbabwe without having a legal representative therein, the Master
may cause to be published in the Gazette and in such other manner,
if any, as he may think fit a notice calling on all whom it may concern
to attend before him at the time and place therein specified to see
letters of confirmation granted to some person to be appointed by
him curator dative of the property of such absent person, and the
Master shall at the time and place so specified appoint by letters of
appointment a fit and proper person who is registered in terms of the
Estate Administrators Act [Chapter 27:20] to be such curator dative
as aforesaid:
Provided that if the only property known by the Master to belong to
the person believed to be absent consists of money payable to him
by the executor of a deceased person or by the trustee of an
insolvent estate, or under section ninety-one, the Master shall not
take any such proceedings as aforesaid.
[Subsection amended by section 68 of Act 16/1998.]
(2) Letters of appointment granted under subsection (1) to a
curator dative shall authorize him to take custody and charge of all
the said person’s property wherever situate within Zimbabwe.
80 Appointment of curator dative of property belonging to
absent persons not having a legal representative in
Zimbabwe
(1) If it comes to the knowledge of the Master that, in consequence
of the death of any person, any estate or property has devolved on
or come to belong to any person absent from Zimbabwe, and not
having a legal representative within the same, the Master shall
cause to be published in the Gazette, and in such other manner as
to him seems fit, a notice calling on all whom it may concern to
attend before him, at the time therein specified, to see letters of
confirmation granted to some person to be appointed by him curator
dative of the estate or property of such absent person.
(2) The Master shall, at the meeting so to be held before him,
appoint some fit and proper person who is registered in terms of the
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