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    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES ACT, 1961 (ACT 63)</a></span></b></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial">As amended by</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial">ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES (AMENDMENT) LAW, 1985 (PNDCL
        113)1.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial">ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial">Section</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial">PART I&#8212;DEVOLUTION OF MOVABLE AND IMMOVABLE PROPERTY</span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#1>1. Devolution on personal representatives.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#2>2. Status of personal representatives.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#3>3. Property of the deceased.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#4>4. Property devolving under customary law.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial">PART II&#8212;THE ADMINISTRATOR-GENERAL</span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#5>5. Application.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial">Appointment and Functions</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#6>6. Appointment and incorporation of Administrator-General.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#7>7. Liability of the Administrator-General.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#8>8. Liability of the Government.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#9>9. Non-liability of Administrator-General and Government.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#10>10. Sale of goods of third party.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#11>11. No security or oath required from Administrator-General.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#12>12. Administrator-General may be appointed executor.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#13>13. Grants to be made to Administrator-General by that
        name.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#14>14. Effect of grant to Administrator-General.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#15>15. Entry of name of Administrator-General in company's
        books not to constitute notice of a trust.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial">Grant of Probate or of Letters of Administration</span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#16>16. Power of Administrator-General to petition court.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#17>17. Entering upon estate before court order.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#18>18. Time of application.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#19>19. Uncertainty as to succession.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#1>20. Grants to persons appearing.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#1>21. Grant to Administrator-General.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#1>22. Transfer by private executor or administrator to
        Administrator-General.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial">Revocation of Grant of Probate or Letters of Administration
    </a></span>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#23>23. Revocation of grant to Administrator-General.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=24>24. Costs of Administrator-General on revocation of
        grant.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#25>25. On revocation previous acts of Administrator-General
        deemed valid.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#26>26. Payments made by Administrator-General prior to
        revocation of grant.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial">Administration</span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#27>27. Movable and immovable property to be realised.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#28>28. Payment of debts and distribution of assets.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#29>29. Disposal of assets received from abroad.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#30>30. Barring of claims.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#31>31. Costs in suit against Administrator-General.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#32>32. Power of Administrator-General to pay for improvements.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#33>33. Power to apply to court for directions or information.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#34>34. Administrator-General to keep accounts.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#35>35. Right of interested person to inspect accounts,
        etc.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#36>36. Payment of money into the prescribed bank and investment
        of surplus funds.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#37>37. Administrator-General to file final account.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#38>38. Power to file interim account.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#39>39. Administrator-General to file interim accounts.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#40>40. Power to transfer share of minor to relative.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial">Distribution of Residue</span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#41>41. Distribution of proceeds of estate.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#42>42. Disposal of immovable property.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#43>43. Assets of persons not domiciled in Ghana payable
        to executor abroad.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#45>44. Disposal of proceeds of intestate estates.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#45>45. Order on petition.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#46>46. Rival claims to residue.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#47>47. Assets unclaimed for five years to be transferred
        to Consolidated Fund.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#48>48. Power of Minister to dispose of unclaimed assets.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#49>49. Fees.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#50>50. Expenses.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#51>51. Right of Administrator-General to costs.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial">Administration of Small Estates</span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#52>52. Power to administer where assets do not exceed
        ¢100.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#53>53. Power to remit fees in estates not exceeding £G100.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#54>54. Power to make rules.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#55>55. Power to Administrator-General to appoint agents.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#56>56. Power to administer oath.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#57>57. False evidence.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#58>58. Agent may take charge of assets.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#59>59. Annual report of Administrator-General.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial">PART III&#8212;EXECUTORS AND ADMINISTRATORS</span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial">General Provisions</span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#60>60. Necessity for probate.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#61>61. Cesser of right of executor to prove.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#62>62. Withdrawal of renunciation.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#63>63. Executor of executor represents original testator.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#64>64. Right of proving executors to exercise powers.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#65>65. Liability of acting executor failing to apply for
        probate.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#66>66. Executor not to act while administration is in
        force.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#67>67. Continuance of legal proceedings after revocation
        of temporary administration.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#68>68. Rights and liabilities of administrator.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial">Duties, Rights and Obligations</span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#69>69. Duty of personal representative as to inventory.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#70>70. Distress for rent.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#71>71. Protection of persons acting on probate or administration.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#72>72. Liability of person fraudulently obtaining estate
        of deceased.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#73>73. Liability of estate of personal representative.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial">PART IV&#8212;GRANTS OF PROBATE AND ADMINISTRATION</span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#74>74. Power to grant representation of movable and immovable
        property separately or together.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#75>75. Grant in case of insolvency.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#76>76. Provisions as to the number of personal representatives.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#77>77. Power to grant representation to a trust corporation.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#78>78. Discretion of court as to persons to whom administration
        is to be granted.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#79>79. Administration pendente lite.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#80>80. Grant of special administration where personal
        representative is abroad.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#81>81. Administration during minority of executor.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#82>82. Administration with will annexed.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial">Recognition of Probate and Letters of Administration
        Granted in Commonwealth and Other Countries</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#83>83. Sealing of probate and letters of administration
        from other countries.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#84>84. Duplicate may be sealed in lieu of original.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#85>85. Rules.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#86>86. Interpretation.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial">Probate Exemption</span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#87>87. &quot;Proper Officer&quot;&nbsp; and &quot;Public
        Officer&quot;.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#88>88. Distribution without probate of sums not exceeding
        £G200.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#89>89. Decision of questions arising under sections 88
        to 91.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#90>90. Regulations.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial">PART V&#8212;ADMINISTRATION OF ASSETS</span>
</p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#91>91. Movable and immovable property of deceased are
        assets for payment of debts.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#92>92. Realisation of assets.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#93>93. Administration of assets.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#94>94. Charges on property of deceased to be paid primarily
        out of the property charged.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#95>95. Effect of assent or conveyance by personal representative.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#96>96. Validity of conveyance not affected by revocation
        of representation.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#97>97. Right to follow property and powers of the court
        in relation thereto.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#98>98. Powers of management.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#99>99. Powers of personal representative for raising
        money, etc.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#100>100. Powers of personal representative as to appropriation.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#101>101. Power to appoint trustees of infants' property.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#102>102. Obligations of personal representatives as to
        giving possession of land and powers of the court.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#103>103. Estate to be Distributed within Specified Period.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial">PART VI&#8212;MISCELLANEOUS<</span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#104>104. Distribution of residuary estate.</a></span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#105>105. Savings.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#106>106. Application of Act.</a></span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#107>107. Interpretation.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#108>108. Statutes ceasing to apply.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#109>109. Repeals.</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#110>110. Commencement.</a></span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">SCHEDULES</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#111>First Schedule&#8212;Form of petition for a grant of
        letters of administration. (s. 16)</a></span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#112>Second Schedule&#8212;Order of application of assets
        where the estate is solvent. (s.94)</a></span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#113>Third Schedule&#8212;Form of a vesting assent. (s.
        96)</a></span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#114>Fourth Schedule&#8212;Statutes ceasing to apply.&nbsp;
        (s.109)</a></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#115>Fifth Schedule&#8212;Repeals.</a></span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: center">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">THE SIXTY-THIRD</span></p>
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    &nbsp;</p>
<p  style="text-align: center">
    &nbsp;</p>
<p  style="text-align: center">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">ACT OF THE PARLIAMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF GHANA</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">ENTITLED</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">THE ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES ACT, 1961</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">>AN ACT to consolidate with amendments enactments providing
        for the administration of estates.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">DATE OF ASSENT: 7th June, 1961</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">BE IT ENACTED by the President and the National Assembly
        in this present Parliament assembled, as follows&#8212;</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <a name=1> </a>
    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#1>PART I&#8212;DEVOLUTION OF MOVABLE AND IMMOVABLE PROPERTY</a></span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 1&#8212;Devolution on Personal Representatives.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) The movable and immovable property of a deceased
        person shall devolve on his personal representatives with effect from his death.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) In the absence of an executor the estate shall,
        until a&nbsp; personal representative is appointed, vest as follows:&#8212;</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(a) if the entire estate devolves under customary law&#8212;in
        the successor;</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(b) in any other case&#8212;in the Chief Justice.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
<a name=2> </a>
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 2&#8212;Status of Personal Representatives.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) The personal representatives shall be the representative
        of the deceased in regard to his movable and immovable property.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) The personal representatives for the time being
        of a deceased person are deemed in law his heirs and assigns within the meaning
        of all trusts and powers.</span></p>
        <a name=#3></a>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 3&#8212;Property of the Deceased.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) An interest in property which cannot by law be
        disposed of&nbsp; by testamentary disposition is not property for the purpose of
        this Act.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) Immovable property passing under any gift contained
        in a&nbsp; will which operates as an appointment under a general power to appoint
        by will shall be deemed to be property of the testator.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(3) The interest of a deceased person under a joint
        tenancy where another tenant survives the deceased is not property of the deceased.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(4) On the death of a corporator sole his interest
        in the corporation's movable and immovable property is not property of the deceased
        and shall devolve on his successor.</p>
<a name=#4></a>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 4&#8212;Property Devolving Under Customary
        Law.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">The interest of an intestate in any property, movable
        or immovable, of which by customary law he could have disposed by testamentary disposition
        shall be deemed to be his property.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">PART II&#8212;THE ADMINISTRATOR-GENERAL</span></p>
<a name=#5></a>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 5&#8212;Application.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">This Part applies to any estate in respect of which
        a grant of&nbsp; probate or letters of administration may be granted by the court.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <i><span style="font-family: Arial">Appointment and Functions</span></i></p>
<a name=#6></a>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 6&#8212;Appointment and Incorporation of
        Administrator-General.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) The President shall appoint a suitable person to
        be the&nbsp; Administrator-General for the purposes of this Act and as many assistant
        administrators-general as may be required.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) The Administrator-General shall be a corporation
        sole by the name of the Administrator-General of the Republic of Ghana and shall
        have perpetual succession and an official seal and may sue and be sued in his corporate
        name, but any instrument sealed by him shall not by reason of his using a seal be
        rendered liable to a higher stamp duty than if he were an individual.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(3) The Administrator-General shall be entitled to
        appear in court either in person or by counsel in any proceeding to which he is
        a party.</span></p>
  <a name=#7></a>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 7&#8212;Liability of the Administrator-General.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) Neither the Administrator-General nor any agent
        shall be personally liable to any person in respect of assets which are in the possession,
        at the time of his death, of any person whose estate is being administered by the
        Administrator-General, and are dealt with by the Administrator-General or agent,
        unless the Administrator-General or his agent, respectively, knows, or has actual
        notice, before the assets are dealt with that they were not in fact the property
        of the person whose estate is being administered by the&nbsp; Administrator-General,
        and generally neither the Administrator-General nor any agent shall be liable for
        any act done by him bona fide in the supposed and intended performance of his duties,
        unless it is shown that the act was done not only illegally but wilfully or with
        gross negligence.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) Nothing in this section shall affect section 19
        of&nbsp; this Act.</span></p>
        <a name=#8></a>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 8&#8212;Liability of the Government.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">The revenue of the Republic shall be liable to make
        good all sums required to discharge any liability which the Administrator-General,
        if he were a private administrator, would be personally liable to discharge except
        when the liability is one to which neither the Administrator-General nor any of
        his agents has in any way contributed, or which neither he nor any of his agents
        could, by the exercise of reasonable diligence, have averted and in either of those
        cases the Administrator-General shall not, nor shall the revenue of the Republic,
        be subject to any liability.</span></p>
 <a name=#9></a>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 9&#8212;Non Liability of Administrator-General
        and Government.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">When death is proved to the satisfaction of the Administrator-General:&#8212;</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(a) by a certified copy of a register of deaths; or</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(b) by a certificate of a local authority in an area
        where there is no compulsory registration of deaths; or</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(c) by a certificate of, in the case of a public officer,
        the official head of the department in which he was employed,</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">>neither the Administrator-General personally nor the
        Government shall be liable for any loss incurred through a fraudulent or innocent
        misrepresentation concerning the death in question.</span></p>
  <a name=#10></a>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 10&#8212;Sale of Goods of Third Party.</a></span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">If during the administration of an estate by the Administrator-General
        there is sold by the Administrator-General or any agent on his behalf any goods
        or chattels belonging to a third party, the amount realised by the sale shall be
        paid over to the owner upon proof by him of ownership unless the proceeds have already
        been applied in payment of the debts of the deceased or have been distributed in
        the ordinary course of administration whilst the Administrator-General or his agent
        was in ignorance or without actual notice of the claim of that person to the goods
        or chattels sold.</span></p>
        <a name=#11></a>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 11&#8212;No Security or Oath Required from
        Administrator-General.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) The Administrator-General shall not be required
        to verify otherwise than by his signature, any petition presented by him under the
        provisions of this Act, and if the facts stated in any such petition are not within
        the Administrator-General's own personal knowledge, the petition may be subscribed
        and verified by any person competent to make the verification.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) The facts stated in the reports of administrative
        officers to the Administrator-General shall, for the purposes of this section, be
        deemed to be within the personal knowledge of the Administrator-General.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(3) The Administrator-General shall not be required
        to enter into any administration bond, or to give other security to the court on
        the grant of any letters of administration to him by that name.</span></p>
        <a name=#12></a>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 12&#8212;Administrator-General may be Appointed
        Executor.</a></span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">The Administrator-General may be appointed the executor
        of any will.</span></p>
        <a name=#13></a>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 13&#8212;Grants to be made to Administrator-General
        by that Name.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">All probates and letters of administration granted
        to the Administrator-General shall be granted to him by that name,&nbsp; and shall
        be deemed to include his successors in office and shall authorise the Administrator-General
        to act as executor or administrator, as&nbsp; the case may be, of the estate to
        which such probate or letters relate.</span></p>
        <a name=#14></a>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 14&#8212;Effect of Grant to Administrator-General.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#1>Probate or letters of administration granted by the
        court to the Administrator-General shall be conclusive as to his representative
        title against all debtors of the deceased and all persons holding assets, and shall
        afford full indemnity to all debtors paying their debts, and all persons delivering
        up such assets, to the Administrator-General, or to his agents duly appointed in
        accordance with the provisions of this Act.</a></span></p>
        <a name=#15></a>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 15&#8212;Entry of Name of Administrator-General
        on Company's Books not to Constitute Notice of a Trust.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) The entry of the name of the Administrator-General
        in the books of a company shall not constitute notice of a trust, and a&nbsp; company
        shall not be entitled to object to enter the name of&nbsp; the Administrator-General
        on its register by reason only that the Administrator-General is a corporation,
        and in dealing with assets the fact that the person dealt with is the Administrator-General
        shall not of itself constitute notice of a trust.</span>
</p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) The Administrator-General shall not be personally
        liable for any claim as a contributory.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <i><span style="font-family: Arial">Grant of Probate or of Letters of Administration.</span></i></p>
  <a name=#16></a>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 16&#8212;Power of Administrator-General
        to Petition Court.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) The Administrator-General may, whenever he becomes
        aware of any&nbsp; estate which he considers unrepresented, present a&nbsp; petition
        to the court in the form set out in the First Schedule to this Act, praying for
        the grant of probate or of letters of administration of the estate and the court
        may, upon being satisfied that the estate is unrepresented, make an order accordingly,
        and thereupon the Administrator-General shall forthwith cause an inventory to be
        made of the estate and filed in the court.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) The Administrator-General shall not petition the
        court in respect of any estate for the administration of which other special provision
        is made by any enactment.</span></p>
<a name=#17></a>        
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 17&#8212;Entering upon Estate before Court
        Order.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">The Administrator-General may, if he thinks fit, immediately
        on becoming aware of any unrepresented estate and before obtaining a grant of probate
        or of letters of administration of the same, enter upon the estate for the purpose
        of sealing up or making such other dispositions for the security of the estate as
        he may deem necessary.</span></p>
<a name=#18></a>        
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 18&#8212;Time of Application.</a></span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">Nothing in any enactment shall preclude the Administrator-General
        from applying to the court for a grant of probate or of letters of administration
        at any time after the death of the deceased.</span></p>
<a name=#19></a>        
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 19&#8212;Uncertainty as to Succession.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) Whenever:&#8212;</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(a) any person dies leaving assets in Ghana and the
        court is not satisfied that there is any person immediately available who is legally
        entitled to succession to the assets, or that&nbsp; danger is to be apprehended
        of misappropriation, deterioration, or waste of the assets before the succession
        thereto can be determined, or whether the Administrator-General is entitled to a
        grant of probate or of letters of administration of the estate of the deceased in
        respect thereof, or</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(b)&nbsp; the agent in charge of any assets in Ghana
        belonging to any person not residing in Ghana or belonging to a company not incorporated
        in Ghana dies without leaving any responsible person in charge thereof,</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">the court may, upon the application of the Administrator-General
        or any person interested in the assets or in the due administration thereof, direct
        the Administrator-General to collect and take possession of the assets and to hold,&nbsp;
        posses, realise, and dispose of them according to the direction of the court, and
        in default of any such directions, to the provisions of this Act so far as applicable
        to the assets.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) Any order of the court made under this section
        shall entitle the Administrator-General&#8212;</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(a) to maintain any suit or proceedings for the recovery
        of the assets; and</a></span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
    <span style="font-family: Arial"><a href=#1>(b) if he thinks fit to apply for a grant of probate
        or of letters of administration of the estate of the deceased; and</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(c) Subject to section 54 of this Act, to retain out
        of the assets of the estate any fees chargeable under rules made under this Act
        and to reimburse himself for all payment made by him in respect of the assets which
        a private administrator might lawfully have made. [As Substituted by Administration
        of Estates (Amendment) Law, 1985 (PNDCL 113) s. 1].</span></p>
        <a name=#20></a>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 20&#8212;Grant to Persons Appearing.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">If in the course of proceedings to obtain a grant of
        probate or of letters of administration under section 16, section 18 or section
        19 of this Act any person appears and establishes his claim&#8212;</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(a) to probate of the will of the deceased; or</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(b) to letters of administration as next-of-kin of
        the deceased, and gives such security as may be required of him by law,</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">the court may grant probate of the will or letters
        of administration accordingly, and shall award the Administrator-General the costs
        of any proceedings taken by him, under those sections, to be paid out of the estate
        as part of the testamentary or intestate expenses thereof.</span></p>
        <a name=#21></a>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 21&#8212;Grant to Administrator-General.</a></span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">If in the course of the proceedings to obtain a grant
        of probate or of letters of administration under section 16, section 18 or section
        19 of this Act, no person establishes his claim to probate of a will, or to a grant
        of letters of administration as next-of-kin of the deceased within such period as
        to the court seems reasonable, or if a person who has established his claim to a
        grant of letters of administration as next-of-kin of the deceased fails to give
        such security as may be required of him by law, the court may grant probate or letters
        of administration to the Administrator-General.</span></p>
        <a name=#22></a>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 22&#8212;Transfer by Private Executor or
        Administrator to Administrator-General.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) Any private executor or administrator may, with
        the previous consent of the Administrator-General by instrument in writing under
        his hand, notified in the Gazette, transfer the assets of the estate vested in him
        by virtue of the probate or letters to the&nbsp; Administrator-General by that name.
    </a></span>
</p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) As from the date of transfer, the transferor shall
        be exempt from all liability as executor or administrator, as the case may be, except
        in respect of acts or omissions done, or committed, before the date of transfer,
        and the Administrator-General shall have the same rights and be subject to the same
        liabilities as if probate or letters of administration, as the case may be, had
        been granted to him by that name at the date of transfer.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <i><span style="font-family: Arial">Revocation of Grant of Probate or Letters of Administration</span></i></p>
    <a name=#23></a>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 23&#8212;Revocation of Grant to Administrator-General.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) If an executor or next-of-kin of the deceased who
        has not&nbsp; been personally served with a citation or who has not had actual notice
        thereof in time to appear pursuant thereto, establishes to the satisfaction of the
        court a claim to probate of a will or to letters of administration in preference
        to the Administrator-General, any probate or letters of administration granted to
        the Administrator-General may be revoked, and probate or letters of administration
        may be granted to the executor or next-of-kin, as the case may be.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) Probate or letters of administration granted to
        the Administrator-General shall not be revoked under this section upon the application
        of the next-of-kin of the deceased, unless the application be made within six months
        after the grant to the Administrator-General and the court is satisfied that there
        has been no unreasonable delay in making the application or in transmitting the
        authority under which the application is made.</span></p>
<a name=#24></a>        
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 24&#8212;Costs of Administrator-General
        on Revocation to Grant.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) If any grant of probate or letters of administration
        to the Administrator-General is revoked, the court may order the costs of obtaining
        the letters of administration and the whole or any part of the fees which would
        otherwise have been payable under this Act together with the costs of the Administrator-General
        in any proceedings taken to obtain revocation, to be paid to or retained by the
        Administrator-General out of the estate.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) This section shall not affect section 19 (2) (c)
        of this Act.</span></p>
        <a name=#25></a>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 25&#8212;On Revocation Previous Acts of
        Administrator-General Deemed Valid.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) If any grant of probate or letters of administration
        to the Administrator-General is revoked, it shall so far as regards the Administrator-General
        and all persons acting under his authority in pursuance thereof, be deemed to have
        been valid, except as to any act done by the Administrator-General, or any such
        person, after notice of a will or of any other fact which would render the probate
        or letters void.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) No notice of a will or of any other fact which
        would render any grant void shall affect the Administrator-General or any person
        acting under his authority in pursuance of the grant unless within the period of
        one month from the time of giving the notice proceedings are commenced to prove
        the will or to cause the letters to be revoked and the proceedings are prosecuted
        without unreasonable delay.</span></p>
        <a name=#26></a>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span sont-family: Arial">Section 26&#8212;Payments made by Administrator-General
        Prior to Revocation of Grant.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">If any grant of probate or letters of administration
        to the Administrator-General is revoked upon the grant of probate of a will or upon
        the grant of letters of administration with copy of the will annexed, all payments
        made or acts done by or under the authority of the Administrator-General in pursuance
        of the grant to him prior to revocation, which would have been valid if the grant
        had not been revoked shall be deemed valid notwithstanding revocation.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <i><span style="font-family: Arial">Administration</span></i></p>
<a name=#27></a>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 27&#8212;Movable and Immovable Property
        to be Realised.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) The Administrator-General may, convert into money
        all movable property except household chattels of an intestate to which section
        3 of the Intestate Succession Law, 1985 (PNDCL 111) applies and with the consent
        of the Court the immovable property of an intestate which he administers.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1) of this section
        if in the opinion of the Administrator-General the claims of creditors of the intestate
        cannot be met without converting those household chattels of the intestate into
        money he shall apply to the Court for an order to sell and convert such household
        chattels into money.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(3) The Court shall, in making an order under subsection
        (2) of this section consider all the circumstances of the case, including the wishes
        of those beneficiaries entitled to such household chattels under the Intestate Succession
        Law, 1985 (PNDCL 111).</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(4) Notwithstanding subsection (1) of this section
        if all parties interested in the immovable property consent in writing to the conversion
        into money by the Administrator-General or if the value of the immovable property
        does not exceed fifty thousand cedis and the Administrator-General is satisfied
        that the conversion of the immovable property into money would be to the advantage
        of the estate, the consent of the Court shall not be necessary. [As Substituted
        by Administration of Estates (Amendment) Law, 1985 (PNDCL 113) s. 2].</span></p>
<a name=#28></a>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 28&#8212;Payment of Debts and Distribution
        of Assets.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) The Administrator-General shall cause advertisements
        to be published in the Gazette, and in such other manner as he thinks fit, calling
        upon the creditors of a person whose estate he administers and other persons beneficially
        entitled thereto to come in and prove their claims before him within such period
        as he may specify. Subject to section 42 of this Act he shall after the expiration
        of that period pay the debts proved, and if the whole thereof cannot be paid he
        shall pay a dividend thereon-if he collects any further assets after making payment
        he shall, in case any part of the debts proved remains unpaid, pay them and any
        debts subsequently proved before him or a dividend thereon; but such debts as are
        subsequently proved shall first be paid a dividend in proportion to their amount
        equal to the dividend paid to creditors having previously proved their debts.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) The Administrator-General may require that any
        claim filed by a creditor or a claimant shall express the name and place of abode
        of the creditor or claimant, the origin of the debt or claim, the degree or class
        of the debt and the particulars and exact amount thereof, verified by affidavit,
        and there shall also be annexed to every claim the documents purporting to be evidence
        thereof; he may also require any claimants to make an affidavit in the prescribed
        form setting forth particulars concerning the person beneficially entitled to the
        estate according to the best of their knowledge and belief.</span></p>
<a name=#29></a>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 29&#8212;Disposal of Assets Received from
        Abroad.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">Where the Administrator-General is administering an
        estate and he receives assets which at the time of the death of the deceased&nbsp;
        were situated outside Ghana those assets shall be treated in the same manner as
        assets in Ghana at the time of death.</span></p>
        <a name=#30></a>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 30&#8212;Barring of Claims.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) When the Administrator-General has given the prescribed&nbsp;
        notice for creditors and others to send in their claims against the estate of the
        deceased, he shall, at the expiration of the time therein named for sending in claims,
        be at liberty to distribute the assets or any part thereof in discharge of such
        lawful claims as he has notice of.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) He shall not be liable, for the assets so distributed,
        to any person of whose claim he had not notice at the time of the distribution.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(3) No notice of any claim which has been sent in and
        has been rejected, or disallowed in part by the Administrator-General shall affect
        him unless proceedings to enforce the claim are commenced within two months after
        notice of rejection or disallowance of the claim has been given and unless proceedings
        are prosecuted without unreasonable delay.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(4) This section shall not prejudice the right of any
        creditor or other claimant to follow the assets or any part thereof in the hands
        of the persons who may have received them.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(5) In computing the period of limitation, if any,
        for any suit, appeal or application under the provisions of any law for the time
        being in force, the period between the date of submission of the claim of a creditor
        to the Administrator-General and the date of the final decision of the Administrator-General
        on the claim shall be excluded.</span></p>
        <a name=#31></a>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 31&#8212;Costs in Suit Against Administrator&#8211;General.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) If any suit is brought by a creditor against the
        Administrator-General, the creditor shall be liable to pay the costs of the suit
        unless he proves that not less than one month previous to the institution of the
        suit he had applied in writing to the Administrator-General stating the amount and
        other particulars of his claim, and had given such evidence in support thereof as,
        in the circumstances of the case, the Administrator-General was reasonably entitled
        to require.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) If the suit is decreed in favour of the creditor,
        he shall, nevertheless, unless he is a secured creditor, be only entitled to payment
        out of the assets of the deceased equally and rateably with the other creditors.</span></p>
<a name=#32></a>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 32&#8212;Disposal of Jewellery, etc.</span></b></p>
<a name=#33></a>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 33&#8212;Power of Administrator-General
        to Pay for Improvements.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">The Administrator-General may, in addition to and not
        in derogation of any other powers of expenditure lawfully exercisable by him, incur
        expenditure:&#8212;</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(a) on such acts as may be necessary for the proper
        care and management of any property belonging to any estate in his charge; and</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(b)&nbsp; with the sanction of the court on such improvements
        as may be reasonable and proper in the case of such property.</span></p>
<a name=#34></a>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 34&#8212;Power to Apply to Court for Directions
        or Information.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) The court, on the application of the Administrator-General
        or of any person interested in the assets of an estate or in the due administration
        thereof, may give to the Administrator-General directions as to any estate in his
        charge or in regard to the administration of any such estate.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) Where any property of a deceased person devolves
        in accordance with customary law the Administrator-General may apply to a court
        of competent jurisdiction for information as to how that property should be distributed
        and the property distributed in&nbsp; accordance with such information shall, so
        far as concerns the liability of the Administrator-General or the Government, be
        deemed to be well administered.</span></p>
<a name=#35></a>        
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 35&#8212;Administrator-General to keep Accounts.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) The Administrator-General shall make a complete
        inventory of every estate which he administers and shall keep an account of all
        receipts, payments and dealings with the estate; he shall retain all letters received,
        and copies of all letters written by him, and all deeds, writings, and papers of
        or relating to the estate.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) The Administrator-General may destroy any private
        papers, bills, receipts, memoranda and other similar documents of no value, which
        he has received along with the estate and which are not claimed by the beneficiaries,
        or other persons entitled thereto.</span></p>
<a name=#36></a>        
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 36&#8212;Right of Interested Person to Inspect
        Accounts Etc.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">Any creditor or beneficiary of an estate which is in
        the charge of the Administrator-General shall upon payment of the prescribed fee
        and subject to such conditions and restrictions as may be prescribed, be entitled
        at all reasonable times to inspect the accounts relating to the estate and the reports
        and certificates of the auditor, and on payment of the prescribed fee, to copies
        thereof and extracts therefrom.</span></p>
<a name=#37></a>        
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 37&#8212;Payment of Money into the Prescribed
        Bank and Investment of Surplus Funds.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) An Administrator-General's account shall be kept
        by the Administrator-General with such bank as may be prescribed, and all moneys
        received by the Administrator-General in respect of proceedings under this Act shall
        be paid into that account.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">Whenever the cash balance standing to the credit of
        the Administrator-General's account is in excess of the amount which in the opinion
        of the Administrator-General is required for the time being to answer demands in
        respect of the estate being administered by him, the Administrator-General may deposit
        the cash balance or any part thereof with the Accountant-General or in a Government
        savings bank or invest the whole or any part thereof in any funds or securities
        in which trustees are by the law for the time being in force authorised to invest
        trust funds.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) Whenever any money so placed on deposit or invested
        is, in the opinion of the Administrator-General, required to answer any demands
        in respect of estates administered by him, the Administrator-General shall thereupon
        withdraw the money deposited or realise the investment, as the case may be, and
        place the amount received to the credit of the cash balance of the Administrator-General's
        account.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(3) When the realised assets of an estate are so small
        in value that the estate is practically indivisible amongst the beneficiaries or
        creditors entitled thereto or when after division of the estate a balance remains
        which by reason of the number of the beneficiaries or creditors and the small amount
        of the balance is practically indivisible amongst the beneficiaries or creditors,
        the assets or balances shall be paid or transferred on the closing of the estate
        account into the Consolidated Fund.</span></p>
<a name=#38></a>        
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 38&#8212;Administrator-General to File Final
        Account.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) On the completion of the administration of an estate
        the Administrator-General shall file in court his accounts and vouchers&nbsp; relating
        thereto, together with an affidavit in verification, and after fourteen days' notice
        has been given in the prescribed manner by the Administrator-General to all persons
        interested, who are resident in Ghana, setting forth the day and the hour to be
        appointed by the taxing officer for the passing of the accounts, the accounts may
        be examined and taxed by the taxing officer in the presence of any person who may
        attend upon the notice, and objection may be taken to the account, or to any item
        or part thereof, and the taxation may be brought under review by the court in the
        same manner, as near as may be, as in the case of any proceeding in court.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) A certificate under the hand of the taxing officer
        or of a judge of the court, to the effect that the accounts have been examined and
        found correct, shall be a valid and effectual discharge in favour of the Administrator-General,
        as against all persons whatsoever.</span></p>
<a name=#39></a>        
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 39&#8212;Power to File Interim Account.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">The Administrator-General may, on giving the notice
        referred to in section 38 of this Act, pass interim accounts prior to the completion
        of the administration.</span></p>
<a name=#40></a>        
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 40&#8212;Administrator-General to File Interim
        Account.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">Where the administration of an estate by the Administrator-General
        is not completed within eighteen months after the grant of letters of administration,
        the Administrator-General shall, unless otherwise ordered by the court, file in
        the court an interim statement of accounts which may be examined in accordance with
        the rules of court.</span></p>
<a name=#41></a>        
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 41&#8212;Power to Transfer Share of Minor
        to Relative.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">When any person entitled to a share under the will
        or in the distribution of the estate of a deceased person, whose estate is being
        administered by the Administrator-General, is a minor, the court may, upon the application
        of the Administrator-General, appoint the father or mother of the minor, or some
        other suitable person, to receive the share of the minor on his behalf, and upon
        the appointment being made, the Administrator-General may pay the share of the minor
        to that person on behalf of the minor, and the receipt of that person shall be a
        full and complete discharge to the Administrator-General so far as regards that
        share.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <i><span style="font-family: Arial">Distribution of Residue</span></i></p>
<a name=#42></a>    
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 42&#8212;Distribution of Proceeds of Estate.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">As soon as may be after the expiration of the time
        limited for the submission of claims in the last of the notices published in pursuance
        of section 28 of this Act, or after the settlement of any disputed claim, the Administrator-General
        shall dispose of the property of the estate in the manner following&#8212;</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(a) he shall reimburse himself of all such costs and
        charges as he may reasonably have incurred in collecting the estate;</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(b) he shall pay to the credit of the Consolidated
        Fund out of the gross amount of moneys arising from the realisation of the estate
        such percentage thereof as may be prescribed;</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(c)&nbsp; he shall pay the creditors of the estate
        in the order and manner provided by law; and</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(d) he shall pay or distribute the balance (if any)
        which remains after such payments aforesaid to the persons legally entitled thereto,
        if known or, if unknown, to the Accountant-General in trust for the persons entitled
        thereto, in accordance with section 45 of this Act.</span></p>
<a name=#43></a>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 43&#8212;Disposal of Immovable Property.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">When after winding up an estate any immovable property
        remains undisposed of, the Administrator-General shall forthwith, and before closing
        the accounts of the estate, apply to the court for directions as to the disposal
        of the immovable property, and the court may order it to be sold, or may appoint
        a receiver or make such other order as the court thinks fit.</span></p>
<a name=#44></a>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 44&#8212;Assets of persons not Domiciled
        in Ghana Payable to Executor Abroad.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) When a person, not having his domicile in Ghana,
        has died leaving assets in Ghana, the Administrator-General, after having given
        the prescribed notice for creditors and others to send&nbsp; in to him their claims
        against the estate of the deceased, and after having discharged at the expiration
        of the time therein named such lawful claims as he may have notice of, may, instead
        of distributing any surplus or residue of the deceased's assets to persons residing
        in another country who are entitled thereto, transfer, with the consent of the executor
        or administrator, if any, as the case may be, in the country of the domicile of
        the deceased, the surplus or residue to that executor or administrator for distribution
        to those persons; or to a consular officer of that country or other authority competent
        to receive it, whose receipt shall be a full and complete discharge to the Administrator-General.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) The Administrator-General may transfer the residue
        through the Accountant-General in any such case and a written acknowledgement by
        the Accountant-General that he has received the surplus for such a purpose shall
        be a full and complete discharge to the Administrator-General.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(3) The Minister may prescribe the fees payable to
        a consular officer or authority mentioned in this section.</span></p>
<a name=#45></a>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 45&#8212;Disposal of Proceeds of Intestate
        Estates.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) When the Administrator-General has completed the
        administration of the estate of any person who has died intestate and without known
        next-of-kin by paying all debts, fees, expenses and liabilities incident to the
        collection, management and administration of the estate and, after the passing of
        the accounts of the estate by the taxing officer or a judge, any sum of money remains
        to the credit of the estate in the hands of the Accountant-General, the Administrator-General
        shall inform the Attorney-General who shall forthwith publish a notice in the Gazette,
        announcing the completion of the administration of the estate and the passing of
        the accounts and the amount of the residue of the estate remaining and calling upon
        all persons claiming to be interested in such estate on legal, equitable or moral
        grounds to present their petitions to the court.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) A petition may be presented at any time within
        two years from the date of the notice, unless the court, under subsection (3) of
        this section, fixes a lesser period within which the petition may be presented,
        and no claim shall be entertained after the expiration of two years or such lesser
        period of time as may be fixed by the court, and the hearing of the petition shall
        not take place until two months have elapsed after the expiration of the period
        of two years or lesser period and until the petitioner has given two months' notice
        in the Gazette of the presentation of the petition or intention to present it, and
        if the petition has been presented and no such notice given, until after the day
        appointed by the court.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -36.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(3) &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (a) Where the court
        is satisfied upon application, either by the Attorney-General or by a person who
        has presented a petition as provided for in subsection (1) of this section, that
        it is unlikely that there will be any further petitions presented or that a lesser
        period of time will be sufficient for the presentation of petitions, the court may
        order that instead of the period of two years mentioned in subsection (2) there
        shall be substituted for that period such lesser period, not being less than six
        months, as the court may consider sufficient.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(b) Notice of any order made by the court under this
        subsection shall be published in the Gazette.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(4) Every petition shall state the place of residence
        of the claimant and the grounds upon which, and the description of the estate in
        respect of which, the claim is made.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(5) A copy of the petition shall be served upon the
        Attorney-General.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(6) Any person claiming to be interested in the estate
        may appear personally or by a legal practitioner, and the respective claims of different
        petitioners may be heard and dealt with at the hearing.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(7) The equitable or moral claims in this section referred
        to shall include those of dependants, whether kindred or not, of the deceased or
        other persons for whom the deceased might reasonably have been expected to make
        provision.</span></p>
<a name=#46></a>        
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 46&#8212;Order on Petition.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) If any petitioner verifies his claim by evidence
        to the satisfaction of the court, the court shall make such order in the&nbsp; matter,
        including any award of costs, as it thinks fit.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) The order may contain a direction to the Accountant-General
        to pay from the sum standing to the credit of the estate in his hands the sum awarded
        to any claimant or petitioner by the order or any debt appearing to the court to
        be then outstanding and due from the estate.</span></p>
<a name=#47></a>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 47&#8212;Rival Claims to Residue.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">Where two or more persons lay claim to any estate or
        residue, the Administrator-General may pay into court and notify the claimants and
        the court may with the consent of the parties, dispose of their claims by determining
        them in a summary manner, and may make such order therein with regard to costs and
        all other matters as the circumstances may require.&nbsp; Where the parties do not
        consent, they may proceed to obtain a decision of their claims according to the
        ordinary course of law.</span></p>
<a name=#48></a>        
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 48&#8212;Assets Unclaimed for Five Years
        to be Transferred to Consolidated Fund.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) All assets deposited by the Administrator-General
        with the Accountant-General in accordance with section 42, or paid into court in
        accordance with section 47, of this Act, which&nbsp; have remained with the Accountant-General
        or court for a period of&nbsp; five years or upwards, without any application for
        payment thereof having been made and granted by the court, shall be transferred,
        in the prescribed manner, to the account and credit of the Consolidated Fund.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) The assets shall not be so transferred if any suit
        or proceeding is pending in respect thereof in any court.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(3) If before the end of the period of five years it
        is claimed and proved on behalf of the Republic to the satisfaction of the court
        that any assets deposited with the Accountant-General are bona vacantia, then those
        assets shall at once become the absolute property of the Republic, but shall be
        subject to the power of disposal conferred on the Minister by section 49 of this
        Act.</span></p>
<a name=#49></a>        
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 49&#8212;Power of Minister to Dispose of
        Unclaimed Assets.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">The Minister may dispose of or distribute either the&nbsp;
        whole or any part of any assets transferred under the provisions of section 48 of
        this Act, or otherwise, to or among any kindred of the deceased or any other such
        persons in such shares or manner as he thinks fit, regard being had to any equitable
        or moral claims.</span></p>
<a name=#50></a>        
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <i><span style="font-family: Arial">Fees, Expenses and Costs</span></i></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 50&#8212;Fees.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">There shall be charged in respect of the duties of
        the Administrator-General such fees as may be prescribed.</span></p>
<a name=#51></a>        
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 51&#8212;Expenses.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) Any expenses which might be retained or paid out
        of any estate in the charge of the Administrator-General, if he were a private administrator
        of the estate, shall be so retained and paid&nbsp; and the fees prescribed under
        section 50 of this Act shall be retained and paid&nbsp; in like manner as an addition
        to the expenses. </span>
</p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) Fees of court payable under any enactment or rule
        of court shall not be charged, paid or collected in respect of estates administered
        by the Administrator-General under section 59 of this Act.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(3) Fees, charges and reimbursements to be retained
        or paid by the Administrator-General shall have priority over all debts of the deceased
        and may be deducted from any moneys received by the Administrator-General in the
        course of the administration.</span></p>
<a name=#52></a>        
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 52&#8212;Right of Administrator-General
        to Costs.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">When the court orders the costs of the proceedings,
        to which the Administrator-General is a party, to be paid otherwise than out of
        the estate of a deceased person which is being administered by the Administrator-General,
        the Administrator-General shall be entitled to charge ordinary costs, whether he
        has appeared in person or not; and those costs shall be credited to the Consolidated
        Fund.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <i><span style="font-family: Arial">Administration of Small Estates</span></i></p>
<a name=#53></a>    
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 53&#8212;Power to Administer where Assets
        do not Exceed ¢100.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) Subject to the provisions of the Intestate Succession
        Law, 1985 (PNDCL 111), whenever any person dies intestate leaving property or assets
        in Ghana, the gross value of which does not exceed fifty thousand cedis the Administrator-General
        may by notice in the Gazette (which may be combined with a notice to creditors and
        others) advertise his intention to administer the estate and at the expiration of
        the time limited by the notice he may apply to the Court for leave to administer
        the estate.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) The Administrator-General shall not under the power
        conferred by this section undertake the administration of an estate if there has
        been any previous appointment of an administrator under any other provision relating
        to small estates, or if there has been any previous grant of probate of the will
        of the deceased or of letters of administration of his estate, unless and until
        that appointment or grant has been revoked.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(3) It shall not be obligatory on the Administrator-General
        to file in Court his accounts or vouchers in respect of an estate administered under
        this section unless he is required to do so by a beneficiary or creditor of the
        administration, and receives payment of such sum as the Administrator-General may
        reasonably require to cover the costs of preparing, filing and passing the accounts.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(4) The Administrator-General shall give notice in
        the prescribed manner to all persons interested that he has completed the administration
        of the estate. A beneficiary or creditor must call on the Administrator-General
        to file an account under subsection (3) of this section within one month of the
        notice being given.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(5) The Administrator-General shall have full power
        to settle finally and without appeal all disputes and questions which may arise
        in the course of an administration by him under this section, including claims by
        creditors, but may allow an appeal to the Court or may himself apply to the Court
        for directions.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(6) In settling disputes or questions, the Administrator-General
        may, if he thinks it&nbsp; expedient in the interests of justice or with a view
        to saving expense, act on information which appears to him to be credible though
        it is not legal evidence. [As Substituted by Administration of Estates (Amendment)
        Law, 1985 (PNDCL 113) s. 4].</span></p>
<a name=#54></a>        
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 54&#8212;Power to Remit Fees in Estates
        not Exceeding £G100.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) Where an estate is administered by the Administrator-General
        under section 53 of this Act the Administrator-General may remit all fees and costs
        usually payable upon an administration by the Administrator-General, and substitute
        therefor a fee calculated in accordance with rules made under section 56 of this
        Act.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) In calculating the amount of the fee payable a
        fraction of a shilling shall be taken as a shilling.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <i><span style="font-family: Arial">Miscellaneous</span></i></p>
<a name=#55></a>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 55&#8212;Power to make Rules.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) The Minister by legislative instrument may make
        rules for carrying into effect the objects of this Part and for regulating the proceedings
        of the Administrator-General.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality
        of the foregoing power the rules may&#8212;</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(a) provide for the accounts to be kept by the Administrator-General;</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(b) provide for the notices to be given by the Administrator-General
        and the method of service;</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(c) prescribe forms, scales of fees and any matter
        in this Act directed to be prescribed;</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(d) define the powers and liabilities of agents, provide
        for the appointment of such persons as may be thought advisable to be agents, fix
        the amount of security to be given by agents and the remuneration to be allowed
        to them, whether by way of fees or salary, and generally regulate their duties.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
<a name=#56></a>
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 56&#8212;Power to Administrator-General
        to Appoint Agents.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) The Administrator-General may appoint such person
        or persons, as he thinks fit, to act as his agent or agents for the preservation
        of the assets under section 19 of this Act or in the managing, collection, and getting
        in of the assets and in payment of the liabilities and the distribution of the assets
        of a deceased person whose estate is in the course of administration by him. The
        agent or agents shall in all respects act under the direction of the Administrator-General,
        who shall not be answerable for any act or omission of any agent not in conformity
        with his direction, or which would not have happened by the Administrator-General's
        own fault or neglect.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) Every agent shall find security, to the satisfaction
        of the Administrator-General, for the performance of his duty.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(3) Agents may be remunerated either by salary or such
        fees as the Administrator-General with the approval of the Minister may decide.</span></p>
<a name=#57></a>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 57&#8212;Power to Administer Oath.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">The Administrator-General may administer oaths, and
        whenever he desires, for the purposes of this Act, to satisfy himself regarding
        any question-of-fact, examine upon oath any person who is willing to be so examined
        by him regarding the question.</span></p>
<a name=#58></a>        
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 58&#8212;False Evidence.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">Whoever in any matter affecting the administration
        of an estate makes upon oath a statement which is false, and which he either knows
        or believes to be false or does not believe to be true, shall be deemed to have
        intentionally given false evidence in a judicial proceeding.</span></p>
<a name=#59></a>        
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 59&#8212;Agent may Take Charge of Assets.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">In the case of deceased persons, having assets in Ghana,
        the agent of the Administrator-General of the area in which the assets are situated
        may, when he thinks it advisable for the protection of the estate, take possession
        thereof, and in such case he shall forthwith report his action to the Administrator-General,
        who shall give such directions and take such proceedings in the matter as he thinks
        fit.</span></p>
<a name=#60></a>        
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 60&#8212;Annual Report of Administrator-General.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">The Administrator-General shall furnish to the Minister
        responsible for Finance as early as possible in each year, a statement showing the
        amount of money received, paid and expended in each case, of the estates being administered
        by him during the previous year.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">PART III&#8212;EXECUTORS AND ADMINISTRATORS</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <i><span style="font-family: Arial">General Provisions</span></i></p>
<a name=#61></a>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 61&#8212;Necessity for Probate.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">A grant of probate is necessary to entitle an executor
        to administer the property, whether movable or immovable, of the testator.&nbsp;
        Before probate, the executor may, for the benefit of the estate, exercise the functions
        which pertain to his office but he shall not be entitled to make a disposition of
        any property.</span></p>
<a name=#62></a>        
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 62&#8212;Cesser of Rights of Executor to
        Prove.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">Where a person appointed executor by a will:&#8212;
    </span>
</p>
<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(a) survives the testator but dies without having taken
        out probate of the will; or </span>
</p>
<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(b) is cited to take out probate of the will and does
        not appear to the citation; or</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(c) renounces probate of the will;</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">his rights in respect of the executorship shall wholly
        cease, and the representation to the testator and the administration of his estate
        shall devolve and be committed in like manner as if that person had not been appointed
        executor.</span></p>
<a name=#63></a>        
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 63&#8212;Withdrawal of Renunciation.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) Where an executor who has renounced probate has
        been permitted, whether before or after the commencement of this Act, to withdraw
        the renunciation and prove the will, the probate shall take effect and be deemed
        always to have taken effect without prejudice to the previous acts and dealings
        of and notices to any other personal representative who has previously proved the
        will or taken out letters of administration, and a memorandum of the subsequent
        probate shall be endorsed on the original probate or letters of administration.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) This section applies whether the testator died
        before or after the commencement of this Act.</span></p>
<a name=#64></a>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 64&#8212;Executor of Executor Represents
        Original Testator.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) An executor of a sole or last surviving executor
        of a testator is the executor of that testator.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">This provision shall not apply to an executor who does
        not prove the will of his testator, and, in the case of an executor who on his death
        leaves surviving him some other executor of his testator who afterwards proves the
        will of that testator, it shall cease to apply on the probate being granted.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) So long as the chain of the representation is unbroken,
        the last executor in the chain is the executor of every preceding testator.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(3) The chain of the representation is broken by&#8212;</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(a) an intestacy; or</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(b) the failure of a testator to appoint an executor;
        or</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(c) the failure to obtain probate of a will;</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">but is not broken by a temporary grant of administration
        if probate is subsequently granted.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(4) Every person in the chain of representation to
        a testator&#8212;</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(a) has the same rights in respect of the estate of
        that testator as the original executor would have had if living; and</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(b)&nbsp; is, to the extent to which the estate of
        that testator has come to his hands, answerable as if he were an original executor.</span></p>
<a name=#65></a>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 65&#8212;Right of Proving Executors to Exercise
        Powers.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) Where probate is granted to one or some of two
        or more&nbsp; persons named as executors, whether or not power is reserved to the
        others or other to prove, all the powers which are by law&nbsp; conferred on the
        personal representative may be exercised by the proving executor or executors for
        the time being and shall be as effectual as if all the persons named as executors
        had concurred therein.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) This section applies whether the testator died
        before or after the commencement of this Act. </span>
</p>
<a name=#66></a>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 66&#8212;Liability of Acting Executor Failing
        to Apply for Probate.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">If a person appointed executor by will takes possession
        of and administers or otherwise deals with any property of the deceased and does
        not apply for probate within one month after the death, or after the termination
        of any suit or dispute respecting probate or administration, he may, independently
        of any other liability, be punished for contempt of court.</span></p>
<a name=#67></a>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 67&#8212;Executor Not to Act While Administration
        is in Force.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">Where administration has been granted in respect of
        any estate of a deceased person, no person shall have power to bring any action
        or otherwise act as executor of the deceased person in&nbsp; respect of the estate
        comprised in or affected by the grant until the grant has been recalled or revoked.</span></p>
<a name=#68></a>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 68&#8212;Continuance of Legal Proceedings
        After Revocation of Temporary Administration.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">If, while any legal proceeding is pending in any court
        by or&nbsp; against an administrator to whom a temporary administration has been
        granted, that administration is revoked, that court may order that&nbsp; the proceeding
        be continued by or against the new personal representative in like manner as if
        it had been originally commenced by or against him, but subject to such conditions
        and variations, if any, as that court directs.</span></p>
<a name=#69></a>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 69&#8212;Rights and Liabilities of Administrator.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">Every person to whom administration of the estate of
        a deceased person is granted shall, subject to the limitations contained in the
        grant, have the same rights and liabilities and be accountable in like manner as
        if he were the executor of the deceased.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <i><span style="font-family: Arial">Duties, Rights and Obligations</span></i></p>
<a name=#70></a>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 70&#8212;Duty of Personal Representative
        as to Inventory.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">The personal representative of a deceased person shall,
        when lawfully required so to do, exhibit on oath in the court a true and perfect
        inventory and account of the estate of the deceased, and the court shall have power
        as heretofore to require personal representatives to bring in inventories.</span></p>
<a name=#71></a>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 71&#8212;Distress for Rent.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) A personal representative may distrain upon land
        for arrears of rent due or accruing to the deceased in like manner as the deceased
        might have done had he been living.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) The arrears may be distrained for after the termination
        of the lease or tenancy as if the term or interest had not determined, if the distress
        is made&#8212;</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(a) within six months after the termination of the
        lease or tenancy; and</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(b) during the continuance of the possession of the
        lessee or tenant from whom the arrears were due.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(3) Any enactments relating to distress for rent apply
        to any distress made pursuant to this section.</span></p>
<a name=#72></a>        
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 72&#8212;Protection of Persons Acting on
        Probate or Administration.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) Every person making or permitting to be made any&nbsp;
        payment or disposition in good faith under a representation shall be indemnified
        and protected in so doing, notwithstanding any defect or circumstance whatsoever
        affecting the validity of the representation.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) Where a representation is revoked, all payments
        and dispositions made in good faith to a personal representative under the representation
        before the revocation thereof are a valid discharge to the person making them; and
        the personal representative who acted under the revoked representation may retain
        and reimburse himself in respect of any payments or dispositions made by him which
        the person to whom representation is afterwards granted might have properly made.</span></p>
<a name=#73></a>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 73&#8212;Liability of Person Fraudulently
        Obtaining or Retaining Estate of Deceased.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">If any person, to the defrauding of creditors or without
        full valuable consideration, obtains, receives or holds any estate of a deceased
        person or effects the release of any debt or liability due to the estate of the
        deceased, he shall be charged as executor in his own wrong to the extent of the
        estate received or coming to his hands, or the debt or liability released, after
        deducting :&#8212;</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(a) any debt for valuable consideration and without
        fraud due to him from the deceased person at the time of his death; and</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(b) any payment made by him which might properly be
        made by a personal representative.</span></p>
<a name=#74></a>        
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 74&#8212;Liability of Estate of Personal
        Representative.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">Where a&nbsp; person as personal representative of
        a deceased person (including an executor in his own wrong) wastes or converts to
        his own use any part of the estate of the deceased, and he dies, his personal representative
        shall to the extent of the available assets of the defaulter be liable and chargeable
        in respect of the waste or conversion in the same manner as the defaulter would
        have been if living.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">PART IV&#8212;GRANTS OF PROBATE AND ADMINISTRATION</span></p>
<a name=#75></a>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 75&#8212;Power to Grant Representation of
        Movable and Immovable Property Separately or Together.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">Probate or administration in respect of the immovable
        property of a deceased person, or any part thereof, may be granted either separately
        or together with probate or administration of his movable property, and may also
        be granted in respect of immovable property&nbsp; only where there is no movable
        property, or in respect of a trust estate only, and a grant of administration to
        immovable property&nbsp; may be limited in any way the court thinks proper.</span></p>
<a name=#76></a>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 76&#8212;Grant in Case of Insolvency.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">Where the estate of the deceased is known to be insolvent,
        the grant of representation to the estate shall not be several except as regards
        a trust estate.</span></p>
        <a name=#77></a>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 77&#8212;Provisions as to the Number of
        Personal Representatives.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) Probate or administration shall not be granted
        to more than four persons in respect of the same property, and administration shall,
        if there is any beneficiary who is an infant or if a life interest arises under
        the will or intestacy, be granted either to a trust corporation, with or without
        an individual, or to not less than two individuals.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) The court in granting administration may act on
        such prima facie evidence, furnished by the applicant or any other person, as to
        whether or not there is a minority or life interest, as the court thinks sufficient.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(3) If there is only one personal representative (not
        being a trust corporation) then during the minority of a beneficiary or the subsistence
        of a life interest and until the estate is fully administered, the court may, on
        the application of any person interested or of the guardian, committee or receiver
        of any such person, appoint one or more personal representatives in addition to
        the original personal representative.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(4) This section shall apply to grants made after the
        commencement of this Act, whether the testator or intestate died before or after
        such commencement.</span></p>
<a name=#78></a>        
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 78&#8212;Power to Grant Representation to
        a Trust Corporation.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) The court may:&#8212;</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(a) where a trust corporation is named in a will as
        executor, whether alone or jointly with another person, grant probate to the corporation,
        either solely or jointly with another person, as the case may require; and</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(b) grant administration to a trust corporation, either
        solely or jointly with another person,</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">and the corporation may act accordingly as executor
        or administrator, as the case may be.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) Probate or administration shall not be granted
        to a syndic or nominee on behalf of a trust corporation.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(3) Any officer authorised for the purpose by a trust
        corporation or the directors or governing body thereof may, on behalf of the corporation,
        swear affidavits, give security and do any other act or thing which the court may
        require with a view to the grant to the corporation of probate or administration,
        and the acts of an officer so authorised shall be binding on the corporation.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(4) Where, at the commencement of this Act, any interest
        in any estate is vested in a syndic on behalf of a trust corporation acting as the
        personal representatives of a deceased person, the said interest shall, by virtue
        of this Act, vest in the corporation, and the syndic shall be kept indemnified by
        the corporation in respect of the said interest.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">This subsection shall not apply to securities registered
        or inscribed in the name of a syndic or to an instrument affecting land registered
        under any enactment in the name of a syndic, but any such securities, land or charge,
        shall be transferred by the syndic to the corporation or as the corporation may
        direct.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(5) This section shall have effect whether the testator
        or the intestate died before or after the commencement of this Act, and no such
        vesting or transfer shall operate as a breach of a covenant or condition against
        alienation or give rise to a forfeiture.</span></p>
<a name=#79></a>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 79&#8212;Discretion of Court as to Persons
        to whom Administration is to be Granted.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) Subject to the provisions of this section the selection
        of a personal representative is within the discretion of the court.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) In granting administration the Court shall have
        regard to the right of all persons interested in the estate, and in particular,
        administration with the will annexed may be granted to a&nbsp; devisee or legatee
        and the administration may be limited in any way the Court thinks fit. [As Substituted
        by Administration of Estates (Amendment) Law, 1985 (PNDCL 113) s. 5].</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(3) The court may:&#8212;</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(i) where the deceased died wholly intestate, grant
        administration to some one or more persons interested in the residuary estate of
        the deceased, if they make an application for the purpose;</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(ii) if by reason of the insolvency of the estate of
        the deceased or of any other special circumstances, it appears to the court to be
        necessary or expedient to appoint as administrator some person other than the person
        who, but for this provision, would by law have been entitled to the grant of administration,
        notwithstanding anything in this Act, appoint as administrator such person as it
        thinks expedient, and any administration granted under this provision may be limited
        in any way the court thinks fit.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
    &nbsp;</p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(4) Where it appears to the court that an estate vested
        in the successor of the deceased under customary law is being duly dealt with, the
        court may refuse to grant an application for administration not made by or with
        the concurrence of the successor.</span></p>
<a name=#80></a>        
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 80&#8212;Administration Pendente Lite.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) Where any legal proceedings touching the validity
        of the will of a deceased person, or&nbsp; for obtaining, recalling or revoking
        any grant, are pending, the court may grant administration of the estate of the
        deceased to an administrator, who shall have all the rights and powers of a general
        administrator, other than the right of distributing the residue of the estate, and
        the administrator shall be subject to the immediate control of the court and act
        under its direction.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) The court may, out of the estate of the deceased,
        assign to an administrator appointed under this section such reasonable remuneration
        as the court thinks fit.</span></p>
<a name=#81></a>        
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 81&#8212;Grant of Special Administration
        Where Personal Representative is Abroad.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) If at the expiration of twelve months from the
        death of a person any personal representative of the deceased to whom a grant has
        been made is residing out of the&nbsp; jurisdiction of the court, the court may,
        on the application of any creditor or person interested in the estate of the deceased,
        grant to him special administration of the estate of the deceased.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) The court may, for the purpose of any legal proceedings
        to which the administrator under the special administration is a party, order the
        transfer into court of any money or securities belonging to the estate of the deceased
        person, and all persons shall obey the order.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(3) If the personal representative capable of acting
        returns to and resides within the jurisdiction of the court while any legal proceedings
        to which a special administrator is a party are pending, that personal representative
        shall be made a party to the legal proceedings, and the costs of and incidental
        to the special administration and the legal proceedings shall be paid by that person
        and out of such fund as the court in which the proceedings are pending may direct.</span></p>
<a name=#82></a>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 82&#8212;Administration During Minority
        of Executor.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) Where an infant is sole executor of a will, administration&nbsp;
        with the will annexed shall be granted to his guardian, or to such other person
        as the court thinks fit, until the infant attains the age of twenty-one years, and
        on his attaining that age, and not before, probate of the will may be granted to
        him.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) Where a testator by his will appoints an infant
        to be an executor, the appointment shall not operate to transfer any interest in
        the property of the deceased to the infant or to constitute him a personal representative
        for any purpose unless and until probate is granted to him under this section.</span></p>
<a name=#83></a>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 83&#8212;Administration with Will Annexed.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">Administration with the will annexed shall continue
        to be granted in every case where a grant was customary before the&nbsp; commencement
        of this Act, and in such case the will of the deceased shall be performed and observed
        in like manner as if probate thereof had been granted.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <i><span style="font-family: Arial">Recognition of Probate and Letters of Administration
        Granted in Commonwealth and Other Countries</span></i></p>
<a name=#84></a>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 84&#8212;Sealing of Probate and Letters
        of Administration from Other Countries.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) Where a Court of Probate in a Commonwealth country
        or in any country to which this section is applied has granted probate or letters
        of administration in respect of the estate of a deceased person, the probate or
        letters so granted may, on being produced to and a copy thereof deposited with the
        court, be&nbsp; sealed with the other seal of the court, and thereupon shall be
        of the like force and effect,&nbsp; and have the same operation in Ghana as if granted
        by the court.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) The court shall, before sealing a probate or letters
        of administration under this Part, be satisfied:&#8212;</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(a) that probate duty has been paid in respect of so
        much, if any, of the estate as is liable to probate duty in Ghana; and</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(b) in the case of letters of administration, that
        security has been given in a sum sufficient to cover the property, if any, in Ghana
        to which the letters of administration relate.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(3) The court may also on the application of any creditor
        require before sealing that adequate security be given for the payment of debts
        due from the estate to creditors residing in Ghana.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(4) The President by legislative instrument may apply
        this section to a specified country on such conditions, if any, as may be prescribed
        in the order.</span></p>
        <a name=#85></a>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 85&#8212;Duplicate may be Sealed in Lieu
        of Original.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">For the purposes of section 84 of this Act, a duplicate
        of any&nbsp; probate or letters of administration sealed with the seal of a Court&nbsp;
        of Probate or a copy thereof certified as correct by or under the&nbsp; authority
        of the court shall have the same effect as the original.</span></p>
<a name=#86></a>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 86&#8212;Rules.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">Until provision is otherwise made by rules of court,
        the fees and probate duty prescribed in relation to probate and administration shall
        apply and be payable as if the person who applied for sealing under&nbsp; section
        84 of this Act were a person applying for probate or letters of administration.</span></p>
<a name=#87></a>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 87&#8212;Interpretation.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">In sections 84 to 86:&#8212;</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">&quot;Court of Probate&quot;&nbsp; means any court
        or authority, by whatever name designated, having jurisdiction in matters of probate;
        &#8220;Probate duty&#8221; includes any duty payable on the value of the estate
        for which probate or letters of administration is or are granted.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    &nbsp;</p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">Probate Exemption</span></p>
    <a name=#88></a>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">Section 88&#8212;&quot;Proper Officer&quot; and &quot;Public
        Officer.&quot;</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">For the purposes of sections 89 to 91 of this Act :&#8212;</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">&quot;the proper officer&quot; means the Administrator-General
        or his agent or a public officer appointed by the Minister to be the proper officer
        in relation to a specified category of persons;</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">&quot;Public officer&quot; includes a pensioner.</span></p>
<a name=#89></a>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 89&#8212;Distribution without Probate of
        Sums not Exceeding £G200.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) On the death of any public officer to whom or to
        whose estate any sum not exceeding two hundred pounds is due or payable by the Government
        in respect of any pay, allowance, pension, or gratuity (excluding a death gratuity),
        then, if the proper officer in his discretion so directs, but subject always to
        the provisions of any regulations made under section 91 and for the time being in
        force, probate or other proof of the title of the personal representative of deceased
        public officer may, any law, usage, or custom to the contrary notwithstanding, be
        dispensed with; and the said sum may be paid to or distributed among the person
        or persons appearing to the proper officer to be entitled to the estate of the deceased
        public officer or a distributive share thereof, or may be paid to or distributed
        among any one or more of such persons, or, if he is unable to discover any such
        person, may be paid to or distributed among such person or persons as such proper
        officer thinks fit, and in such proportions as he thinks fit.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) Upon any such payment or distribution being made,
        the Government and the proper officer shall thereupon be discharged from all liability
        in respect of that payment or distribution.</span></p>
<a name=#90></a>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 90&#8212;Decision of Questions Arising under
        Sections 88 to 91.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">The decision of the Minister on any question which
        arises as to the application of sections 88 to 91 of this Act to any person, or
        as to the amount of any pay, allowance, pension, or gratuity, or&nbsp; as to the
        reckoning of any service for such pay, allowance, pension, or gratuity, shall be
        final and conclusive.</span></p>
<a name=#91></a>        
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 91&#8212;Regulations</span></b><span
        style="font-family: Arial">.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">The Minister by legislative instrument may make regulations
        for any of the purposes of sections 89 and 90 of this Act.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">PART V&#8212;ADMINISTRATION OF ASSETS</span></p>
<a name=#92></a>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 92&#8212;Movable and Immovable Property
        of Deceased are Assets for Payment of Debts.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) The movable and immovable property of a deceased&nbsp;
        person, to the extent of his beneficial interest therein, and the movable or immovable
        property of which a deceased person in pursuance of any general power disposes by
        his will, are assets for payment of his debts (whether by specialty or simple contract)
        and liabilities, and any disposition by will inconsistent with this enactment is
        void as against the creditors, and the court shall, if necessary, administer the
        property for the purpose of the payment of the debts and liabilities. </span>
</p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">This subsection&nbsp; takes effect without prejudice
        to the rights of incumbrancers.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) If any person to whom any beneficial interest devolves
        or is given, or in whom any interest vests, disposes thereof in good faith before
        an action is brought against him, he shall be personally liable for the value of
        the interest so disposed of by him, but that interest shall not be liable to be
        taken in execution in the action.</span></p>
<a name=#93></a>        
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 93&#8212;Realisation of Assets.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) Subject to subsection (2) of this section the personal
        representative may, so far as required for the purposes of administration sell and
        convert into money any movable and immovable property of the deceased other than&nbsp;
        those household chattels and immovable property to which sections 3 and 4 of the
        Intestate Succession Law, 1985 (PNDCL 111) apply.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1) of this section
        if the personal representative is of the opinion that the conversion into money
        of those household chattels and the immovable property referred to in that subsection
        is necessary for the purposes of administration he shall apply to the Court for
        an order to sell and convert into money those household&nbsp; chattels and immovable
        property.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(3) The Court shall, in making an order under subsection
        (2) of this section, consider all the circumstances of the case, including the wishes
        of those beneficiaries entitled to the household chattels and the immovable property.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(4) Out of the money arising from sale and conversion
        and any ready money of the deceased, the personal representative shall pay all testamentary
        and administration expenses, debts and other liabilities properly payable therefrom
        having regard to the rules of administration contained in this Part, and shall provide
        for any pecuniary legacies bequeathed by the will (if any) of the deceased.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(5) Pending the distribution of the whole or any part
        of the estate of the deceased, the personal representatives may invest any money
        in their hands in any investments for the time being authorised by any enactment
        for the investment of trust money, with power, at the discretion of the personal
        representatives, to change the investments for others of a like nature.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(6) The income (including net rents and profits of
        immovable property after payment of rates, taxes, rents, costs of insurance, repairs
        and other outgoing properly attributable to&nbsp; income) of so much of the deceased
        as may not be disposed of by his will, if any, or may not be required for the administration
        purposes under subsection (1) of this section, may, however the estate is invested,
        as from the death of the deceased, be treated and applied as income.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(7) Nothing in this section affects the rights of any
        creditor of the deceased.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(8) Where the deceased leaves a will, this section
        shall have effect subject to the provisions contained in the will. [As Substituted
        by Administration of Estates (Amendment) Law, 1985 (PNDCL 113) s. 6].</span></p>
<a name=#94></a>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 94&#8212;Administration of Assets.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) Where the estate of a deceased is solvent, his
        movable and immovable property shall, subject to the rules of Court and the provisions
        of this Act relating to charges on property of the deceased, and to the provisions,
        if any, contained in his will, be applicable towards the discharge of the testamentary
        and administration expenses, debts and liabilities payable therefrom in the order
        specified in the Second Schedule to this Act. [As Substituted by Administration
        of Estates (Amendment) Law, 1985 (PNDCL 113) s. 7].</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) Where the estate of a deceased person is insolvent,
        his estate shall be administered as provided by law.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(3) The right of retainer of a personal representative
        and his right to prefer creditors may be exercised in respect of all assets of the
        deceased, but the right of retainer shall only apply to debts owing to the personal
        representative in his own right whether solely or jointly with another person.&nbsp;
        The right of retainer shall not apply to the Administrator-General. </span>
</p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">Subject as aforesaid, nothing in this Act affects the
        right of retainer of a personal representative, or his right to prefer creditors.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(4) Where administration is granted of an estate which
        was previously being dealt with in accordance with customary law the grant shall
        not affect the validity of any act duly done in accordance with that law prior to
        the grant.</span></p>
        <a name=#95></a>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 95&#8212;Charges on Property of Deceased
        to be Paid Primarily Out of the Property Charged.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) Where a person dies possessed of, or entitled to,
        or, under a general power of appointment by his will disposes of, an interest in
        property, which at the time of his death is charged with the payment of money, whether
        by way of legal mortgage, equitable charge or otherwise (including a lien for unpaid
        purchase money), and the deceased has not by will, deed or other document signified
        a contrary or other intention, the interest so charged shall, as between the different
        persons claiming through the deceased, be primarily liable for the payment of the
        charge; and every part of the said interest, according to its value, shall bear
        a proportionate part of the charge on the whole thereof.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) Such contrary or other intention shall not be deemed
        to be signified:&#8212;</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(a) by a general direction for the payment of debts
        or of all the debts of the testator out of his movable property, or his residuary
        movable and immovable property, or his residuary immovable property; or</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(b) by a charge of debts upon any such property;</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">unless such intention is further signified by words
        expressly or by necessary implication referring to all or some part of the charge.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(3) Nothing in this section affects the right of a
        person entitled to the charge to obtain payment or satisfaction thereof either out
        of the other assets of the deceased or otherwise.</span></p>
<a name=#96></a>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 96&#8212;Effect of Assent or Conveyance
        by Personal Representative.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) A personal representative may assent to the vesting,
        in the form set out in the Third Schedule to this Act, in any person who (whether
        by devise, bequest, devolution, appropriation or otherwise) may be entitled thereto,
        either beneficially or as a trustee or personal representative, of any estate or
        interest in immovable property to which the testator or intestate was entitled or
        over which he exercised a general power of appointment by his will, and which devolved
        upon the personal representative.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) The assent shall operate to vest in that person
        the estate or interest to which the assent relates, and, unless a contrary intention
        appears, the assent shall relate back to the death of the deceased.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(3) The covenants implied by a person being expressed
        to convey as personal representative may be implied in an assent in like manner
        as in a conveyance by deed.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(4) Any person in whose favour an assent or conveyance
        of the property is made by a personal representative may require that notice of
        the assent or conveyance be written or endorsed on or permanently annexed to the
        probate or letters of administration, at the cost of the estate of the deceased,
        and that the probate or letters of administration be produced, at the like cost,
        to prove that the notice has been placed thereon and annexed thereto.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(5) A statement in writing by a personal representative
        that he has not given or made an assent or conveyance in respect of an immovable
        property, shall, in favour of a purchaser, but without prejudice to any previous
        disposition made in favour of another purchaser deriving title immediately or immediately
        under the personal representative, be sufficient evidence that an assent or conveyance
        has not been given or made in respect of the property to which the statement relates,
        unless notice of a conveyance affecting that property has been placed on or annexed
        to the probate or administration.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">A conveyance by a personal representative to a purchaser
        accepted on the faith of such a statement shall (without prejudice as aforesaid
        and unless notice of a previous assent or conveyance affecting the property has
        been placed on or annexed to the probate or administration) operate to transfer
        or create the property expressed to be conveyed in like manner as if no previous
        assent or conveyance had been made by the personal representative.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">A personal representative making a false statement,
        in regard to any such matter, shall be liable in like manner as if the statement
        had been contained in a statutory declaration.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(6) An assent or conveyance by a personal representative
        shall, in favour of a purchaser, unless notice of a previous assent or conveyance
        affecting the property has been placed on or annexed to the probate or administration,
        be taken as sufficient evidence that the person in whose favour the assent or conveyance
        is given or made is the person entitled to have the property conveyed to him, and
        upon the proper trusts, if any, but shall not otherwise prejudicially affect the
        claim of any person rightfully entitled to the estate vested or conveyed or any
        charge thereon.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(7) A conveyance by a personal representative to a
        purchaser shall not be invalidated by reason only that the purchaser may have notice
        that all the debts, liabilities and testamentary or administration expenses, duties
        and legacies of the deceased have been discharged or provided for. [As Substituted
        by Administration of Estates (Amendment) Law, 1985 (PNDCL 113) s. 8].</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(8) An assent or conveyance given or made by a personal
        representative shall not, except in favour of a purchaser, prejudice the right of
        the personal representative or any other person to recover the estate or interest
        to which the assent or conveyance relates, or to be indemnified out of that estate
        or interest against any debt or liability to which that estate or interest would
        have been subject if there had not been any assent or conveyance.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(9) A personal representative may, as a condition of
        giving an assent or making a conveyance, require security for the discharge of any
        debt or liability, but shall not be entitled to postpone the giving of an assent
        merely by reason of the subsistence of debt or liability if reasonable arrangements
        have been made for discharging it; and an assent may be given subject to any charge
        by way of mortgage.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(10) This section shall not operate to impose any stamp
        duty in respect of an assent, and in this section &#8220;purchaser&#8221; means
        a purchaser for money or money's worth.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(11) This section applies to assents and conveyances
        made after the commencement of this Act, whether the testator or intestate died
        before or after such commencement.</span></p>
<a name=#97></a>        
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 97&#8212;Validity of Conveyance not Affected
        by Revocation of Representation.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) All conveyances of any interest in movable or immovable&nbsp;
        property made to a purchaser either before or after the commencement of this Act
        by a person to whom probate or letters of administration have been granted are valid,
        notwithstanding any subsequent revocation or variation, either before or after the
        commencement of this Act, of the probate or administration.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) This section takes effect without prejudice to
        any order of the court made before the commencement of this Act, and applies whether
        the testator or intestate died before or after such commencement.</span></p>
<a name=#98></a>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 98&#8212;Right to Follow Property and Powers
        of the Court in Relation Thereto.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) An assent or conveyance by a personal representative
        to a person other than a purchaser does not prejudice the rights of&nbsp; any person
        to follow the property to which the assent or conveyance relates, or any property
        representing it, to the hands of the person in whom it is vested by the assent or
        conveyance, or of any other&nbsp; person (not being a purchaser) who may have received
        it or in whom it may be vested.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) Notwithstanding any such assent or conveyance the
        court may, on the application of any creditor or other person interested:&#8212;</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(a) order a sale, exchange, mortgage, charge, lease,
        payment, transfer or other transaction to be carried out which the court considers
        requisite for the purpose of giving effect to the rights of the persons interested;</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(b) declare that the person, not being a purchaser,
        in whom the property is vested is a trustee for those purposes;</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(c) give directions respecting the preparation and
        execution of any conveyance or other instrument or as to any other matter required
        for giving effect to the order;</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(d) make any vesting order, or appoint a person to
        convey the property.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(3) This section does not prejudice the rights of a
        purchaser or a person deriving title under him, but applies whether the testator
        or intestate died before or after the commencement of this Act.</span></p>
<a name=#99></a>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 99&#8212;Powers of Management.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) In dealing with the movable and immovable property
        of the deceased his personal representatives shall, for purposes of administration,
        or during a minority of any beneficiary or the subsistence of any life interest,
        or until the period of distribution arrives, have:&#8212;</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(a) the same powers and discretions, including power
        to raise money by mortgage or charge (whether or not by deposit of documents), as
        a personal representative had before the commencement of this Act, with respect
        to any property vested in him, and the power of raising money by mortgage may in
        the case of land be exercised by way of legal mortgage; and</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(b) all the powers, discretions and duties conferred
        or imposed by law on trustees holding land upon an effectual trust for sale (including
        power to overreach equitable interests and powers as if the same affected the proceeds
        of sale); and</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(c) all the powers conferred by law on trustees for
        sale, and so that every contract entered into by a personal representative shall
        be binding on and be enforceable against and by the personal representative for
        the time being of the deceased, and may be carried into effect, or be varied or
        rescinded by him, and, in the case of a contract entered into by a predecessor,
        as if it had been entered into by himself.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) Nothing in this section shall affect the right
        of any person to require an assent or conveyance to be made.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(3) This section applies whether the testator or intestate
        died before or after the commencement of this Act.</span></p>
<a name=#100></a>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 100&#8212;Powers of Personal Representative
        for Raising Money, Etc.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) For giving effect to beneficial interests the personal
        representative may limit or demise land for a term of years absolute, to trustees
        on usual trusts for raising or securing any principal sum&nbsp; and the interests
        thereon for which the land, or any part thereof, is liable, and may limit or grant
        a rent charge for giving effect to any annual or periodical sum for which the land
        or the income thereof or any part thereof is liable.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) This section applies whether the testator or intestate
        died before or after the commencement of this Act.</span></p>
<a name=#101></a>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 101&#8212;Powers of Personal Representative
        as to Appropriation.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) The personal representative may appropriate any
        part of the movable or immovable property, including things in action, of the deceased
        in the actual condition or state of investment thereof&nbsp; at the time of appropriation
        in or towards satisfaction of any legacy bequeathed by the deceased, or of any other
        interest or share in his property, as to the personal representative may seem just
        and reasonable, according to the respective rights of the persons interested in
        the property of the deceased.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) An appropriation shall not be made under this section
        so as to affect prejudicially any specific devise or bequest.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(3) An appropriation of property, whether or not being
        an investment authorised by law or by the will, if any, of the deceased for the
        investment of money subject to the trust, shall not (save as hereinafter mentioned)
        be made under this section except with the following consents:&#8212;</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(a) when made for the benefit of a person absolutely
        and beneficially entitled in possession, the consent of that person;</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(b) when made in respect of any settled legacy, share
        or interest, the consent of either the trustee thereof, if any (not being also the
        personal representative), or the person who may for the time being be entitled to
        the income.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">If the person whose consent is so required as aforesaid
        is an infant or a lunatic or defective the consent shall be given on his behalf
        by his parents or parent, testamentary or other guardian, committee or receiver,
        or if, in the case of an infant, there is no such parent or guardian, by the court
        on the application of his next friend.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(4) No consent (save of such trustee as aforesaid)
        shall be required on behalf of a person who may come into existence after the time
        of appropriation, or who cannot be found or ascertained at that time.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(5) If no committee or receiver of a lunatic or defective
        has been appointed, then, if the appropriation is of an investment authorised by
        law or by the will, if any, of the deceased for the investment of money subject
        to the trust, no consent shall be required on behalf of the lunatic or defective.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(6) If, independently of the personal representative,
        there is no trustee of a settled legacy, share or interest, and no person of full
        age and capacity entitled to the income thereof, no consent shall be required to
        an appropriation in respect of the legacy, share or interest, provided that the
        appropriation is an authorised investment.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(7) Any property duly appropriated under the powers
        conferred by this section shall thereafter be treated as an authorised investment,
        and may be retained or dealt with accordingly.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(8) For the purposes of the appropriation, the personal
        representative may ascertain and fix the value of the respective parts of the movable
        and immovable property and the liabilities of the deceased as he thinks fit, and
        may make any conveyance (including an assent) which may be requisite for giving
        effect to the appropriation.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(9) An appropriation made pursuant to this section
        shall bind all persons interested in the property of the deceased whose consent
        is not hereby made requisite.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(10) The personal representative shall, in making the
        appropriation, have regard to the rights of any person who may thereafter come into
        existence, or who cannot be found or ascertained at the time of appropriation, and
        of any other person whose consent is not required by this section.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(11) This section does not prejudice any other power
        of appropriation conferred by law or by the will (if any) of the deceased, and takes
        effect with any extended powers conferred by the will (if any) of the deceased,
        and where an appropriation is made under this section, in respect of a settled legacy,
        share or interest, the property appropriated shall remain subject to all trusts
        for sale and powers of leasing, disposition, and management or varying investments
        which would have been applicable thereto or to the legacy, share or interest in
        respect of which the appropriation is made, if no such appropriation had been made.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(12) If after any immovable property has been appropriated
        in purported exercise of the powers conferred by this section, the person to whom
        it was conveyed disposes of it or any interest therein, then, in favour of a purchaser
        the appropriation shall be deemed to have been made in accordance with the requirements
        of this section and after all requisite consents, if any, had been given.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(13) In this section, a settled legacy, share or interest
        includes any legacy, share or interest to which a person is not absolutely entitled
        in possession at the date of the appropriation, and an annuity, and &#8220;purchaser&#8221;
        means a purchaser for money or money's worth.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(14) This section applies whether the deceased died
        intestate or not, and whether before or after the commencement of this Act, and
        extends to property over which a testator exercises a general power of appointment,
        and authorises the setting apart of a fund to answer an annuity by means of the
        income of that fund or otherwise.</span></p>
<a name=#102></a>        
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 102&#8212;Power to Appoint Trustees of Infants'
        Property.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) Where an infant is absolutely entitled under the
        will or on the intestacy of a person dying before or after the commencement of this
        Act (in this subsection called &quot; the deceased &quot;) to a devise or legacy,
        or to the residue of the estate of the deceased,&nbsp; or any share therein, and
        such devise, legacy,&nbsp; residue or share is not under the will, if any, of the
        deceased, devised or bequeathed to trustees for the infant, the personal representatives
        of the deceased may appoint the Public Trustee or a trust corporation or two or
        more individuals not exceeding four (whether or not including the personal representatives
        or one or more of the personal representatives), to be the trustee or trustees of
        the devise, legacy, residue or share for the infant, and may execute or do any assurance
        or thing requisite for vesting the devise, legacy, residue or share in the trustee
        or trustees so appointed.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">On the appointment the personal representatives, as
        such, shall be discharged from all further liability in respect of the devise, legacy,
        residue, or share, and the same may be retained in its existing condition or state
        of investment, or may be converted into money, and the money may be invested in
        any authorised investment.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) Where a personal representative has before the
        commencement of this Act retained or sold any such devise, legacy, residue or share,
        and invested it or the proceeds thereof in any investments in which he was authorised
        to invest money subject to the trust, then, subject to any order of the court made
        before such commencement, he shall not be deemed to have incurred any liability
        on that account, or by reason of not having paid or transferred the money or property
        into court.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(3) Nothing in this section shall prejudice any right
        of the Public Trustee under the provisions of the&nbsp; Public Trustee Ordinance,
        1952 (No. 24).</span></p>
<a name=#103></a>        
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 103&#8212;Obligations of Personal Representative
        as to giving Possession of Land and Powers of the Court.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) A personal representative, before giving an assent
        or making a conveyance of immovable property, may permit that person to take possession
        of the property, and that possession shall not prejudicially affect the right of
        the personal representative to take or resume possession nor his power to convey
        the property&nbsp; as if he were in possession thereof, but subject to the interest
        of any lessee, tenant or occupier in possession or in actual occupation. </span>
</p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) Any person who as against the personal representative
        claims possession of immovable property, or the appointment of a receiver thereof,
        or a conveyance thereof, or an assent to the vesting thereof, may apply to the court
        for directions with reference thereto, and the court may make such vesting or other
        order as may be deemed proper.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(3) This section applies whether the testator or intestate
        died before or after the commencement of this Act.</span></p>
<a name=#104></a>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 104&#8212;Estate to be Distributed within
        Specified Period.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">Subject to the provisions of this Act or any other
        enactment a personal representative shall distribute the estate of a deceased person
        within one year after he has been granted probate or letters of administration.
        [As Substituted by Administration of Estates (Amendment) Law, 1985 (PNDCL 113) s.
        9].</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">PART VI&#8212;MISCELLANEOUS</span></p>
<a name=#105></a>    
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 105&#8212;Distribution for Residuary Estate.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) The residuary estate shall be disposed of by the
        personal representative in accordance with the will of the deceased or, in the case
        of intestacy, in accordance with the provisions of the Intestate Succession Law,
        1985 (PNDCL 111). [As Substituted by Administration of Estates (Amendment) Law,
        1985 (PNDCL 113) s. 10].</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) Where the common law applies, the rules relating
        to the distribution of movable property shall apply likewise to immovable property.</span></p>
<a name=#106></a>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 106&#8212;Savings.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) Where, before the commencement of this Act, the
        administration of any estate has been commenced under the provisions of any other
        enactment the estate shall, notwithstanding the provisions of this Act, be carried
        out in accordance with the provisions of the other enactment.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) This Act shall not affect the estate of a seaman
        to whom the Merchant Shipping (Transitory Provisions) Act, 1957 (No. 23) applies.</span></p>
<a name=#107></a>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 107&#8212;Application of Act.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">Save as otherwise expressly provided, this Act does
        not apply in any case where the death occurred before the commencement of this Act.</span></p>
<a name=#108></a>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 108&#8212;Interpretation.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires&#8212;</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">&quot;Administrator-General&quot; includes an Assistant
        Administrator-General;</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">&quot;administration&quot; means, with reference to
        the movable and immovable property of a deceased person, letters of administration,
        whether general or limited, or with the will annexed or otherwise; </span>
</p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">&quot;administrator&quot; means a person to whom administration
        is granted; </span>
</p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">&quot;agent&quot; means an agent of the Administrator-General
        duly appointed as provided in section 56 of this Act; </span>
</p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">&quot;assets&quot; means all property, movable and
        immovable, of a deceased person which is chargeable with and applicable to the payment
        of his debts and legacies or available for distribution amongst those entitled to
        share; </span>
</p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">&quot;conveyance&quot; includes a mortgage, charge
        by way of legal mortgage, lease, assent, vesting, declaration, vesting instrument,
        disclaimer, release and every other assurance of property or of an interest therein
        by any instrument, except a will; </span>
</p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">&quot;court&quot; means the High Court; </span>
</p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">&quot;disposition&quot; includes a conveyance and also
        a devise, bequest and an appointment of property contained in a will; </span>
</p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">&quot;estate&quot; means all property, movable and
        immovable;</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">&quot;income&quot; includes rents and profits;</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">&quot;intestate&quot; includes a person who leaves
        a will but dies intestate as to some beneficial interest in his movable or immovable
        property;</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">&quot;lunatic&quot; includes every person so found
        under any enactment and every person with regard to whom it is proved to the satisfaction
        of the court that such person is through mental infirmity arising from disease or
        age incapable of managing his affairs;</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">&quot;the Minister&quot; means the Minister to whom
        functions under this Act are for the time being assigned by the President;</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">&quot;minority&quot; means, according to the context,
        the state of being an infant or the interest of an infant beneficiary under a will
        or intestacy;</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">&quot;pecuniary legacy&quot; includes an annuity, a
        general legacy, a demonstrative legacy so far as it is not discharged out of the
        designated property, and any other general direction by a testator for the payment
        of money;</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">&quot;personal representative&quot; means the executor,
        original or by representation, or administrator for the time being of a deceased
        person; </span>
</p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">&quot;possession&quot; includes the receipt of rents
        and profits or the right to receive them, if any; </span>
</p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">&quot;prescribed&quot; means prescribed by rules of
        court or rules made by the Minister pursuant to this Act; </span>
</p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">&quot;probate&quot; means the probate of a will;
    </span>
</p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">&quot;probate rules&quot; mean rules and orders made
        for regulating the procedure and practice of the court in regard to non-contentious
        or common-form probate business; </span>
</p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">&quot;property&quot; includes a thing in action;
    </span>
</p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">&quot;purchaser&quot; means a lessee, mortgagee or
        other person who in good faith acquires an interest in property for valuable consideration,
        and an intending purchaser; </span>
</p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">&quot;rent&quot; includes any annual or periodical
        payment in money or money's worth, issuing out of or charged upon land, but does
        not include mortgage interest; </span>
</p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">&quot;representation&quot; means the probate of a will
        and administration, and &quot;taking out representation&quot; refers to the obtaining
        of the probate of a will or of the grant of administration;</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">&quot;residuary estate&quot; means residue as defined
        in section 18 of the Intestate Succession Law, 1985 (PNDCL 111) [As Substituted
        by Administration of Estates (Amendment) Law, 1985 (PNDCL 113) s. 11].</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">&quot;rules of court&quot; include, in relation to
        non-contentious or common-form probate business, probate rules;</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">&quot;securities&quot; include stocks, funds, or shares;
    </span>
</p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">&quot;syndic&quot; means a person deputed to represent,
        and transact the affairs of, a corporation;</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">&quot;taxing officer&quot; means any Registrar of the
        court or any officer duly appointed to act for such officer;</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">&quot;trust corporation&quot; means the Public Trustee
        or a corporation appointed by the court in any particular case to be a trustee;</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">&quot;unrepresented estate&quot; means:&#8212;</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(a) the estate of every person who dies intestate and
        whose next of kin (or where such next of kin is an infant, his guardian) is unknown
        or is absent from Ghana without having an attorney therein or, if in Ghana and known,
        has refused or neglected for a period of one month after the death of the deceased
        to apply to the court for letters of administration;</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(b) the estate of every person who has died having
        made a will, when owing to any cause it is necessary to appoint an administrator
        cum testamento annexo or de bonis non of such estate and the person entitled to
        such letters of administration is unknown or has, if in Ghana and known, refused
        or neglected for one month after the death of the testator to apply to the court
        for such letters of administration or is absent from Ghana without having any attorney
        therein;</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(c) every estate whereof the executors or administrator
        are absent from Ghana without having an attorney therein;</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(d) every estate where the deceased has named the Administrator-General
        as the sole executor of his will;</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">&quot;valuable consideration&quot; includes marriage,
        but does not include a nominal consideration in money; </span>
</p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">&quot;will&quot; includes codicil.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) References to a child or issue living at the death
        of any person include a child or issue en ventre sa mere at the death.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(3) References to the property of a deceased person
        include property over which the deceased exercises a general power of appointment
        by his will.</span></p>
<a name=#109></a>        
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 109&#8212;Statutes Ceasing to Apply.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">Each statute, or provision of a statute, indicated
        in the&nbsp; Fourth Schedule to this Act shall, insofar as it ever applied in&nbsp;
        Ghana, cease to apply.</span></p>
        
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 110&#8212;Repeals.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) Each enactment indicated in the Fifth Schedule
        to this Act is repealed.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) An instrument made under any repealed enactment
        and in force immediately before the commencement of this Act shall continue in force
        as if made under the corresponding provision of this Act.</span></p>
   <a name=#110></a>    
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <b><span style="font-family: Arial">Section 111&#8212;Commencement.</span></b></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">This Act shall come into operation on such day as the
        President by legislative instrument may appoint.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
<a name=#111></a>    
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">FIRST SCHEDULE</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">FORM OF PETITION FOR A GRANT OF LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">To:&nbsp; THE CHIEF JUSTICE OF GHANA:</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">The petition of the Administrator-General humbly showeth:&#8212;</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">That your petitioner has been informed and believes
        that A.B., late of,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; day of&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        , (state why the property of the deceased is &quot;unrepresented estate&quot;).
    </span>
</p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">And the said A.B. died possessed of property in Ghana.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">Your petitioner therefore prays the High Court will
        be pleased to order that a Grant of Probate be made or Letters of Administration
        do issue (as the case may be) to him to administer the estate of the said A.B. deceased.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">Dated this...........................................................................................day
        of&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        ,19</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">................................................</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">Administrator-General. </span>
</p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
    <a name=#112></a>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">SECOND SCHEDULE</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">Section 94</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">ORDER OF APPLICATION OF ASSETS WHERE THE ESTATE IS
        SOLVENT</span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial">1. The general or residuary movable property, not exonerated
        or exempted.</span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial">2. Immovable property specifically appropriated to
        or devised in trust for payment of debts.</span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial">3. Immovable property devised, charged with payment
        of debts.</span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial">4. General pecuniary legacies, rateably.</span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial">5. Movable property specifically bequeathed, rateably.</span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial">6. Other immovable property of the deceased, whether
        devised or not.</span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial">7. Property expressly appointed by will in exercise
        of a general power of appointment.</span></p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
    <a name=#113></a>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">THIRD SCHEDULE</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">Section 96</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">FORM OF A VESTING ASSENT</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">I .............................................................................................
        of ...............................................................................</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">[Name]&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        etc.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">as the personal representative of ..................................................................................................................................</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">[Testator or intestate]</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">late of ..............................................................................................
        deceased do this ........................................ day of&nbsp; .....................................................................................................................................
        hereby assent to the vesting in .......................................................................................
        of .................................................... of All </span>
</p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial">[Beneficiary]&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        etc.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        etc. [Parcels]</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">for all the interest of the said .....................................................................................................................................</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">[Testator or intestate]</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">at the time of his death and I hereby acknowledge the
        right of the said ..........................................................................</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">to production of the probate&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        [Beneficiary]</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">of the will of the said ................................................................................................................................................</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">[Testator]</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">[letters of administration of the said .........................................................................................
        deceased]</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">[Intestate]</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">and to delivery of copies thereof.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">As Witness ...............................................................................................................................................................
        etc.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">...................................................................</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">[Signature of personal Representative]</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
    <a name=#114></a>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">FOURTH SCHEDULE</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">Section 109</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">STATUTES CEASING TO APPLY</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt">
    <i><span style="font-family: Arial">Session and Chapter&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        Subject-Matter&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>
    </i>
</p>
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    <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">13 Edw. 1 (Stat. Westm. sec.) c.19 (1285)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Payment of debts
        of intestate&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>
</p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">13 Edw. 1. (Stat. Westm. sec.) c.23 (1285)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Writ of account for executors.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
    </span>
</p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">13 Edw. 1 (Stat.&nbsp; Westm. sec.) c.34 (1285)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Dower.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
    </span>
</p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">25 Edw. 1. c.7 (1297)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp; Widow; her marriage
        estate re-marriage.&nbsp; </span>
</p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">25 Edw. 1. c. 1 8. (1297) ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        ..&nbsp;&nbsp; The King's tenant, his debtor.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
    </span>
</p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">4 Edw. 3 c.7 (1330)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp; Executor's action of
        trespass.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>
</p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">25 Edw. 3 st.5 c.5. (1350)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        ..&nbsp; Executors of executors.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>
</p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">31 Edw. 3. st. 1. c. 11. (1357)&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; .. Administration on intestacy.
    </span>
</p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">21 Hen. 8. c.4 (1529)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        ..&nbsp;&nbsp; Executors.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>
</p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">2 Hen. 8. c.37 (1540), sections by 1, 2 and 3&nbsp;
        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Recovery of arrears by Executors
        and Administrators.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>
</p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">1 Edw. 6. c. 12 (1547)&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        ..&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        ..&nbsp;&nbsp; Treason, etc.&nbsp; </span>
</p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">5 and 6 Edw. 6. c.11 (1551)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        .. Treason, etc.&nbsp; </span>
</p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">43 Eliz. c.8 (1601)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Fraudulent administration.&nbsp;&nbsp;
    </span>
</p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">12 Chas. 2. c.24 (1660) ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        ..&nbsp; Abolition of old tenures.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
    </span>
</p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">29 Chas. 2 c.3 (1677), sections 10, 11, 23 and 24&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The
        Statute of Frauds.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>
</p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">30 Chas. 2. C.7 (1678)&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        ..&nbsp; Executors in their own wrong</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">1. Jas. 2. c.17. (1685)&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        ..&nbsp;&nbsp; Administration of intestates'</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt; margin-left: 252.0pt">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;estates.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
    </span>
</p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">4&nbsp; Will and Mar. c.24 (1692). section 12&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Personal representatives.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
    </span>
</p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">38 Geo. 3. c.87. (1798)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        ..&nbsp;&nbsp; Administration of Estates.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>
</p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">11 Geo. 4 and 1 Will.&nbsp; 4. c.40 (1830)&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Executors.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
    </span>
</p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">11 Geo. 4 and 1 Will. 4. c.47.(1830)&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Debts Recovery.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
    </span>
</p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">3 and 4 Will. 4. c.42. (1833), sections 2, 37 and 38&nbsp;
        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        Civil Procedure.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>
</p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">3 and 4 Will. 4. c.104 (1833)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; .. Administration of Estates.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
    </span>
</p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">2 and 3 Vict. c.60. (1839)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        ..&nbsp; Debts Recovery.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>
</p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">11 and 12 Vict. c.87. (1848)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp; Debts Recovery.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
    </span>
</p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">17 and 18 Vict. c. 113. (1854) ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp; Real Estate Charges.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
    </span>
</p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">20 and 21 Vict. c.77. (1857), sections 70 to 80&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        Court of Probate.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>
</p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">21 and 22 Vict. c.95. (1858), sections 16, 18, 19,
        21 and 22&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Court of Probate.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
    </span>
</p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">22 and 23 Vict. c.35. (1859), sections 14 to 18&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        Law of Property Amendment&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
    </span>
</p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">30 and 31 Vict. c.69. (1867)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp; Real Estate Charges.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
    </span>
</p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">32 and 33 Vict. c.46. (1869)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp; Administration of Estates.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
    </span>
</p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">Section 110</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">Repeals.</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">Probates (British and Colonial) Ordinance (Cap. 21).</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">Administration of Estates by Consular Officers Ordinance
        (Cap. 22).</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">Administration (Foreign Employment) Ordinance (Cap.
        23).</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">Probate Exemption Ordinance (Cap. 25).</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
    <span style="font-family: Arial">Administrator-General Ordinance, 1952 (No.37).</span></p>
<p  style="text-align: justify">
