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No. 2 of 1897.
Administration of estate of deceased subordinate member of police force.
PROBATES.
Estates of deceased members of police force.
64.-(1) Any person employed in the police force under the rank of inspector and dying whilst so employed shall not be deemed to be within the meaning of the preceding provisions of this Ordinance; but the Captain Superintendent of Police is hereby constituted the official administrator of his estate, and is required to get in and administer the same, with the sanction of the Colonial Secretary, and, within one month after the death of any such person, to certify the same and the amount in value of the estate of such person, by certificate under his hand, to the Registrar of the court for registry in the court; and he shall also pay over to the Treasurer the balance of every such estate, after payment of all lawful claims against the same.
Administration of estate of passenger dying on voyage to the Colony.
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(2) It shall be lawful for the Colonial Secretary, on the application of the Captain Superintendent of Police, at any time to sign an order upon the Treasurer for the payment of the whole or any part of such balance to such person or persons as may appear to be entitled thereto, and the Treasurer shall comply with such order.
Estates of persons dying on voyages to the Colony.
65. (1) The following special provisions shall regulate the administration of the estates of passengers who die at sea in the course of a voyage to the Colony on board of any vessel which afterwards arrives in the Colony:
(a) where any passenger has died on board of any vessel in the course of a voyage to the Colony, the master of the vessel in which such passenger has died shall, immediately upon the arrival of the vessel in the Colony, hand over to the Harbour Master all the goods and effects of such passenger then on board of such vessel;
(b) thereupon the Harbour Master shall take possession of such goods and effects, and,-
(i) if he thinks that their value is more than one hundred dollars he shall forthwith hand them over to the Official Administrator, to whom he shall also furnish in writing all such information as he may have been able to obtain about the deceased passenger and as he may consider likely to be useful for the due administration of the estate; and,
* As amended by Law Am. Ord., 1923.
As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1923, and Law Am. Ord., 1923.