ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES ACT Chapter 6:01 (2) Every such person shall, in respect of every valuation made by him, be entitled to demand and receive a reasonable compensation to be assessed and taxed by the Master. (3) Any such person who makes a valuation of assets or property in any case in which he or any person whom he represents as agent or any person to whom he is married or to whom he is related within the third degree of consanguinity or affinity, has an interest in the estate to be valued, shall be guilty of an offence and liable to pay the appropriate penalty prescribed in section one hundred and fourteen.offence and liable to a fine not exceeding level six or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding six months or to both such fine and such imprisonment. [Subsection amended by by s. 4 of Act 22/2001.] 129 Oath to be taken after valuation made Every person who is called upon to value any assets or property in terms of section one hundred and twenty-eight shall take an oath before any judge of the High Court, magistrate, justice of the peace or commissioner of oaths that he has valued such assets or property according to the just, proper and true valuation thereof to the best of his skill and knowledge and shall transmit his valuation, supported by that oath, to the Master or Assistant Master, as the case may be. 130 Meetings before magistrate or other authorized official Any meeting advertised to be held before any magistrate under this Act may, in the absence of such magistrate on leave or duty or through indisposition, be held before an official to be authorized by the Master. 131 Certified copies of duplicate original documents admissible in evidence Whenever any duplicate original documents have, under this Act, been lodged in the office of the Assistant Master or of any magistrate, a copy or extract thereof, signed and certified as a true copy or extract thereof by the Assistant Master or magistrate, as the case may be, having custody of such document, and every such copy authenticated by the Assistant Master, a magistrate or the Master, as the case may be, as has under this Act been lodged in the office of the Assistant Master or any magistrate, shall be admissible in evidence in any court, and before any person having by law or consent of parties authority to hear, receive and examine evidence. 132 Minister may make regulations8 (1) The Minister may make regulations providing for any matter which by this Act is required or permitted to be prescribed or which, 8 62 By section 6 of Act No. 6 of 1997, the amendments to this section made by section 5 of that Act “shallnot have effect in relation to the estate of any person who died before the date of commencement of this Act” (10th October, 1997). Reissue