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9. Section 10 repeals section 59 of the principal Ordin- ance and re-enacts it with the addition of the words in brackets, as doubts had arisen as to whether attorneys for executors or administrators under Part VI of the principal Ordinance were within the section. In the re-enactment the words "or attorney" are added to the first proviso and a second proviso is added providing a maximum scale as in the case of section 24.
10. Section 11 amends section 61 (1) and 61 (3) of the principal Ordinance to make it clear that the limit of $500, as in the case of the $250 under section 19, applies to the value of the whole estate in the Colony and not to the whole estate wherever situate.
11. Section 12 substitutes for section 64 of the principal Ordinance a revised and redrafted section in which estates of subordinate officers of the Prisons Department are included and the Superintendent of Prisons is appointed their adminis- trator. In sub-section (1) the expression "not above the rank of sub-inspector" is substituted for the expression "under the rank of inspector" for greater clarity and because the former expression is used in the Police Force Ordinance (see No. 37 of 1932, ss. 14 and 15). Also the expression "without any legal formality" is inserted in sub-section (2), which represents the latter part of the old sub-section (1), to conform with section 19. In sub-section (3), which repre- sents the old sub-section (2), the words "in his discretion" have been inserted, to conform with the old section 65 (1) (ii).
12. Section 13 adds two new sub-sections to section 65 of the principal Ordinance. The new sub-section (2) gives to the Official Administrator, with respect to larger estates of passengers dying on voyages to the Colony, like powers to those given with respect to small estates to the Harbour Master under section 65 (1); but the period of holding is extended to six months. The new sub-section (3) applies the provisions of the Unclaimed Balances Ordinance, 1929, to estates dealt with under section 65. That Ordinance, under section 4 thereof, already applies to estates dealt with under section 19 of the Probates Ordinance. It often proves impossible to trace the relatives in these cases.
C. G. ALABASTER,
May, 1933.
Attorney General.