PROBATES.
No. 2 of 1897.
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as the Treasurer may consider entitled thereto, without requiring the production of probate or administration.
(2) Payment of all such sums of money shall be made under such regulations as the Treasurer may, with the approval of the Governor, make for that purpose.
63. Any payment made under the provisions of section 62 shall be valid against all persons whatever, and all persons acting under the said provisions shall be absolutely discharged from all liability in respect of any moneys duly paid or applied by them under the said provisions.
Estates of subordinate police and prisons officers.
64.—(1) Any person employed in the police force, not above the rank of sub-inspector, and any person employed in the prisons department, not above the rank of principal warder, who shall die whilst so employed, shall not be deemed to be within the meaning of the preceding provisions of this Ordinance.
(2) The Commissioner of Police and the Superintendent of Prisons respectively are hereby constituted administrators of the estates of such persons in their departments and are required, without any legal formality, to get in and administer the same, and, within one month after the death of any such person, to certify the same and the amount thereof to the Registrar of the court for registration in the court, and to pay over to the Treasurer the balance of every such estate, after payment of all lawful claims against the same.
(3) It shall be lawful for the Colonial Secretary, in his discretion, on the application of the Commissioner of Police or the Superintendent of Prisons, as the case may be, 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 him 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
* As amended by No. 14 of 1933 [23.6.33].
estate of