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(c) where a person dying intestate, whether in this Colony or elsewhere, has left property situate in the Colony and the next of kin of such person who are resident in the Colony file in the Registry a request for or consent to the making of such grant, in writing signed by them;
(d) where a person dying intestate, whether in this Colony or elsewhere, has left property situate in the Colony and no person has, within twelve months after the death of such person, obtained administration of his estate; and
(e) where a person dying intestate, whether in this Colony or elsewhere, has left property situate in the Colony and the next of kin of such person who are resident in the Colony are infants under the age of twenty-one years.
(2.) The preceding provisions of this section shall apply, with the necessary modifications, in the case of a person who dies testate, whether in this Colony or elsewhere, but without appointing an executor, or whose executor, if appointed, refuses, neglects, or is unable to act.
21. Nothing in this Ordinance shall be construed to enable or require the Official Administrator to obtain administration of the estate of any person dying in the naval or military service of Her Majesty and subject to the Articles of War, or of any deceased seaman or apprentice for the administration of whose estate provision is made by any Act of Parliament for the time being in force, or of any person for the administration of whose estate special provision is otherwise made in Part V.
22. Any grant made to the Official Administrator under this Ordinance may be limited in respect of time or in any other respect as the Court may seem fit.
23. Subject to the special direction of the Court to the contrary in any particular case, the Official Administrator shall bring the administration of every estate of which he has obtained administration to a close in the period fixed by law for that purpose in the case of an ordinary administrator.
24. A commission at the rate of five per cent. per annum shall be chargeable on all moneys received or taken possession of, or realized or otherwise dealt with, by the Official Administrator under this Ordinance; and such commission shall be accounted for and paid over by the Official Administrator to the Colonial Treasurer for the public use of the Colony.
25. The provisions of the Unclaimed Balances Ordinance, 1885, relating to the payment into the Colonial Treasury by the Official Administrator...