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Adminis- tration of oaths, etc. 20 & 21 Vict. c. 77, s. 27.
Registrar
to be Official Administra-
tor.
Effect of grant to Official Administra-
tor.
Re-vesting of property on vacation of office.
Probate and Administration.
10. (1) The Registrar of the 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 court shall be ex officio Official Administrator under this Ordinance.
(2) In all cases the Official Administrator shall be sub- ject to the immediate control and act under the direction of the court.
(3) The Official Administrator may employ a solicitor or other agent to do any business which may be sanctioned by the court.
(4) Applications by the Official Administrator to the court may be made personally, and without notice or other formality; but the court may in any case order that an application be renewed in a formal manner, and that such notice thereof be given to any person likely to be affected thereby as the court may direct.
12. A grant of administration to the Official Adminis- trator, whether the name of the grantee, the officer holding the appointment at the time of the grant, is or is not men- tioned 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.
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