CHAPTER 1 ADMINISTRATION OF NATIVE AND SMALL ESTATES.

CHAPTER 1 ADMINISTRATION OF NATIVE AND SMALL ESTATES.

To make special provision for the administration of deceased native and small estates.

[25TH JANUARY, 1941.]

1. Short title.

This Ordinance may be cited as the Administration of Native and Small Estates Ordinance.

2. Interpretation.

For the purposes of this Ordinance, unless there is something repugnant in the subject or context--

"administrator" means an administrator appointed under this Ordinance;

"Collector" means a Collector of Land Revenue or Assistant Collector of Land Revenue for any district in which the whole or any part of the property belonging to an estate is situated;

"estate" means a native or small estate;

"native estate" means the estate in the Colony of a deceased native irrespective of the value thereof;

"small estate" means the estate in the Colony of a deceased person other than a native not exceeding $3,000 in total value at the date of his death, without any deduction on account of the debts of the deceased but exclusive of what the deceased was possessed of or entitled to as trustee and not beneficially.

3. Who may apply.

When the owner of any estate has died the executor named in the will of the deceased or, if there is no such executor, any person claiming, under the said will or according to the rules for the distribution of the estate of an intestate applicable in the case of the deceased, to be entitled to the whole or any part of the deceased's estate, or any creditor of the deceased, or any police officer, or, where the deceased was a native, the headman of the village in which the deceased resided or owned any property may make an application to the Collector for an order for the distribution of the estate or that he may be appointed administrator of the estate.