ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES ACT Chapter 6:01 spouses during the minority of such children, shall not in any case be required to lodge any such annual account in manner aforesaid, anything to the contrary in this section contained notwithstanding. 95 Summons by Master The Master may summon any tutor, whether testamentary or dative, and any curator, whether nominate or dative, and any curator bonis to show cause why any account which under section ninetyfour ought to have been lodged with the Master has not been lodged, and section fifty-three to fifty-five shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to all proceedings taken by the Master in pursuance of this section. 96 Compensation of tutors and curators Every tutor, either testamentary or dative, and every curator, either nominate or dative, shall, in respect of his administration and management of any estate, be entitled to claim, retain and receive out of the assets of such estate a reasonable compensation for his care and diligence in the said administration, to be assessed and taxed by the Master, subject to the review of the High Court or any judge thereof, upon the petition of any such tutor or curator or of any person having an interest in the said estate. [Section amended by section 4 of Act 12/1997.] The Guardian’s Fund 97 The Guardian’s Fund (1) The Guardian’s Fund heretofore established under the operation of Ordinance No. 105 of the Cape of Good Hope shall be continued under and subject to this Act. (2) All moneys received by the Master under section fifty-one, sixty-one, eighty, ninety-two and ninety-three or otherwise shall form and become part of the said Guardian’s Fund and due and proper accounts shall be opened in respect thereto. 98 Interest on moneys of minors and mentally disordered or defective persons (1) Interest shall be allowed on every sum of money so received by the Master for account of any minor or mentally disordered or defective person or any person who has been declared by the High Court to be incapable of managing his own affairs from and including the date of receipt of such money and until and including the day preceding the date on which such person becomes entitled by law to draw the capital, and no longer: Provided that, on the 1st April in each year, the interest that has become due on any moneys as aforesaid shall be added to the capital in the books of the Guardian’s Fund, and in case such interest is not drawn by the person entitled thereto previous to the 1st April following or the date on which he or his estate becomes entitled by law to draw the capital, interest shall be allowed on the accumulated sum. 50 Reissue

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