Probate and Administration Act

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3 Express renunciation

4 Constructive renunciation

5 Effect of renunciation

6 Provisions as to the number of personal representatives

7 Notation of domicile

9 Probate of copy or draft, or of contents

11 Administration with copy annexed of authenticated copy of will proved abroad

12 Codicil propounded after probate

13 On failure of executors

14 Letters of administration with will annexed to attorney of absent executor

15 To attorney of absent person entitled to letters of administration

16 Codicil propounded after grant of letters of administration

17 Letters of administration until will produced

18 Letters of administration on intestacy

19 Letters of administration to attorney of person entitled

20 Letters of administration pendente lite

23 Letters of administration of trust property

24 Letters of administration to collect and preserve property

25 Death of one of several executors, etc.

26 Grants with exception

27 Administration when limited grant expired and still some part of estate unadministered

29 Administration bond

30 Bond by creditor administrator

31 Assignment of bond

32 Revocation of grant

34 Jurisdiction of District Courts

35 Grants in excess of jurisdiction not to be invalid

36 Security in case of grant of administration by District Court

37 Vesting of property of an intestate

38 Receiver pending grant

39 Sale by order of court

40 Application of rules relating to receivers

42 No suit against receiver

43 Receiver’s lien

46 Power of court to re-seal

47 Application to British courts in foreign countries

48 Provisions for estate duty

49 Security on re-sealing letters of administration

50 Security for creditors in Singapore

51 Notice of sealing

52 Notice of revocation

54 Order to bring in will, etc.

55 Grant to official assignee in cases of delay

57 Administration of assets

58 Charges on property of deceased to be paid primarily out of the property charged

59 Administration of estates by consular officers

60 Variation of Third Schedule

61 Letters of administration granted to consular officer to pass to his successors in office

62 Administration by official assignee

63 Payment for minor’s maintenance, etc., out of property not exceeding in value $25,000 held by official assignee

64 Exemption from necessity of giving notice of distribution of property of less than $10,000

65 When interest is payable into Consolidated Fund

66 Executors’ or administrators’ commission

67 Testamentary and funeral expenses

68 Letters of administration granted to official assignee pass to his successor in office

69 Power of registrar to grant probate or letters of administration in uncontested cases

Probate of copy or draft, or of contents

9. Where a will has been lost or mislaid after the death of the testator, or where a will cannot for any sufficient reason be produced —

(a)	if a copy or draft thereof is produced, and it appears that the copy or draft is identical in terms with the original, probate may be granted of that copy or draft, limited until the original is admitted to probate; or
(b)	if no such copy or draft is produced, probate may be granted of the contents of the will, if they can be sufficiently established, limited as above described.

Administration by official assignee

62.—(1) Where any person dies leaving property in Singapore not exceeding $50,000 in value (without deduction for debts but not including the value of any property which the deceased possessed or was entitled to as trustee and not beneficially) the official assignee, after satisfying himself that no petition for letters of administration is pending, may, if he thinks fit, by writing signed by him declare that he undertakes to administer such property, and thereupon he shall be empowered to administer it as though letters of administration, with or without the will annexed, of the estate of the deceased person had been granted to him, and his receipt shall be a sufficient discharge to any person who pays any money or delivers any property to him; and notice of every such declaration shall be filed in court.

(2) At any time prior to the distribution of any part of the property among the beneficiaries thereof under this section the official assignee may, if he thinks it expedient to do so, notwithstanding any declaration made by him under subsection (1), decline to proceed with the administration of the property in his hands until a grant of representation has been obtained in respect of the estate of the deceased.

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