ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES ACT Chapter 6:01 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 44 Reissue

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