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.
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