1124 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 5тя DECEMBER, 1896.
Section 19.
SCHEDULES.
THE FIRST SCHEDULE,
FORM OF RETURN OF ESTATES OF INTESTATES.
Return of Estates of Intestates for the Half-Year ending
1
Section 61,
Baction #2.
Name of Intestate,
Amount re- ceived on account of Estate.
Deductions for Disburse- ments.
Balance on closing Accouut.
Disposal of Balance.
(Signed.)
Dated this
day of
1
A.B.,
Official Administrator.
THE SECOND SCHEDULE,
FEES PAYABLE IN RESPECT OF SMALL ESTATES.
Where the whole estate of the intestate does not exceed in value $100, the sum of $1; and where the whole estate exceeds in value $100, the sum of $1, and the further sum of 20 cents for every $50 or fraction of $50 by which the value exceeds $100.
THE THIRD SCHEDULE.
TABLE OF ENACTMENTS REPEALED,
Number and Year
of Ordinance.
No. 8 of 1860.
No. 1 of 1861. No. 9 of 1870.
Title or Short Title and Date of Ordinance.
An Ordinance to amend the Law in relation to the Grant and Revocation of Probates of Wills and Letters of Administration in Hongkong. [30th April, 1860.]
An Ordinance for amending Ordinance No. 8 of 1860.
[23rd March, 1861.]
An Ördinance to amend Ordinance No. of 1860, and to make further provision in relation to the Adminis- tration of the Estate and Effects of Deceased Persons. [19th August, 1870.]
No. 20 of | An Ordinance to amend Ordinance 8 of 1860. [11th
December, 1885.]
1885.
No. 1 of 1886.
No. 10 of 1886. No. 13 of 1890.
No. 14 of 1892. No. 23 of 1895.
An
Ordinance to empower the Colonial Treasurer to pay otherwise than to Executors or Administrators small Sums due on account of Pay or Allowances to Persons deceased, [10th March, 1886.]
The Widows and Children Relief Ordinance, 1896,
[7th May, 1886.]
An Ordinance to amend the Law relating to the Official
Administrator. [30th July, 1890.]
The United Kingdom Probates Ordinance, 1892. [20th
December, 1892.]
The British Possessions Probate Ordinance, 1895. [11th
December, 1895.]
Objects and Reasons.
It is proposed by this Bill to consolidate into one Ordin- ance, with such alterations and amendments as have been judged necessary, all the Ordinances on the local Statute Book having reference to probates of wills and letters of administration of the estates of deceased persons, to the rules of administration of such estates, to the mode of dealing with probates and letters of administration granted in places out of the Colony, and to certain special cases in which a summary mode of administering the estates of deceased persons has been provided by law. These Ordin- ances are nine in number, and they will be found enumer ated in the Third Schedule to the Bill. The main object of the measure is not so much to change or alter the pro- visions of the law on this subject, which have on the whole worked in a satisfactory manner, as to simplify and improve their method and arrangement.
2. The only changes of any importance suggested by the Bill have relation to the office of Official Administrator. In clause 19 provision is made for the summary adminis- tration of the estates of persons dying intestate, where the whole value of the estate does not exceed $50 in value. In clause 20 an attempt is made to define the cases in which this officer is entitled to apply for and obtain letters of administration. At present the law is silent upon this
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