PROBATES.
No. 2 of 1897.
815
may direct such person to attend for the purpose of being examined in open court or upon interrogatories respecting the same, and such person shall be bound to answer such questions or interrogatories, and, if so ordered, to produce and bring in such paper or writing, and shall be subject to the like process of contempt in case of default in not attending or in not answering such questions or interrogatories, or not bringing in such paper or writing, as he would have been subject to in case he had been a party to an action in the court and had made such default.
etc.
c. 77, s. 27.
10. (1) The Registrar of the Supreme Court, and any other person whom the Chief Justice may, under the seal of the Supreme Court, appoint for that purpose shall respectively have full power to administer oaths and to perform such other duties in reference to matters and causes testamentary as may be assigned to them by any rules and orders made under this Ordinance.
(2) Every commissioner for taking oaths in the Supreme Court in its original jurisdiction shall be a commissioner for taking oaths in the court.
## PART II
## THE OFFICIAL ADMINISTRATOR.
11. (1) The Registrar of the Supreme Court shall be ex officio Official Administrator under this Ordinance.
(2) In all cases the Official Administrator shall be subject to the immediate control and act under the direction of the court.
12. A grant of administration to the Official Administrator, whether the name of the grantee, the officer holding the appointment at the time of the grant, is or is not mentioned therein, shall be deemed to have been made and to be made, as the case may be, to him, and his successors in office.
13. All property vested in the Official Administrator for the time being by virtue of any grant of administration made to him or any predecessor in office or otherwise shall, on his vacating or otherwise ceasing to hold the office, be deemed to be vested in his successor without any further transfer or conveyance.