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 estate in certain circumstances between death and grant of administration

37A Transitional and savings

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

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 and Administration Act

(CHAPTER 251)

(Original Enactment: Ordinance 24 of 1934)

REVISED EDITION 1985

(30th March 1987)

An Act relating to the grant of probate and letters of administration.

[1st January 1935]

PART I

PRELIMINARY

Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the Probate and Administration Act.

Interpretation

2. In this Act, unless there is something repugnant in the subject or context —

“court” means the High Court or a judge when sitting in open court in all cases where proceedings are taken in the High Court and means the District Court or a District Judge when sitting in open court in all cases where proceedings are taken in a District Court;

“judge” means a judge sitting in chambers in all cases where proceedings are taken in the High Court and means a District Judge sitting in chambers in all cases where proceedings are taken in a District Court;

“letters of administration” means a grant under the seal of the court issuing the same, authorising the person or persons therein named to administer an intestate’s estate in accordance with law;

“letters of administration with the will annexed” means a grant under the seal of the court issuing the same, authorising the person or persons therein named to administer a testator’s estate in compliance with the directions contained in his will, and in accordance with law;

“official assignee” includes any officer appointed by the Minister to discharge the duties of official assignee in bankruptcy;

“prescribed form” means the form prescribed by rules made under any law for the time being in force relating to the courts;

“probate” means a grant under the seal of the court issuing the same, authorising the executor or executors expressly or impliedly appointed by a testator’s will, or one or more of them, to administer the testator’s estate in compliance with the directions contained in his will, and in accordance with law;

“probate action” means a cause or matter in which a petition for probate or letters of administration is contested by any person, and includes any application to alter or revoke the grant of any probate or letters of administration;

“registrar” means the Registrar or the Deputy Registrar or Assistant Registrar of the Supreme Court in all cases where proceedings are taken in the High Court and means a registrar or deputy registrar of a District Court in all cases where proceedings are taken in a District Court to which a registrar is attached and means a District Judge in all cases where proceedings are taken in any other District Court;

“will” includes any codicil or other testamentary document.

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