Probate and Administration Act 1934

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3 Express renunciation

4 Constructive renunciation

5 Effect of renunciation

6 Provisions as to 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 may be granted to attorney of absent executor

15 Grant 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 pending probate action

22 Persons who lack mental capacity

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 some part of estate unadministered

29 Administration bond

30 Bond by creditor administrator

31 Assignment of bond

32 Revocation of grant

35 Grants in excess of jurisdiction not to be invalid

37 Vesting of estate in Public Trustee in certain circumstances between death and grant of administration

38 Estate vested in Chief Justice before 1 October 1997

39 Receiver pending grant

40 Sale by order of court

41 Application of rules relating to receivers

43 No suit against receiver

44 Receiver’s lien

47 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 Public Trustee in cases of delay

57 Administration of assets

58 Charges on property of deceased to be paid primarily out of 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 Public Trustee

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

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

65 When interest is payable into Consolidated Fund

66 Executors’ or administrators’ commission

67 Testamentary and funeral expenses

68 Where funds of estate cannot be immediately distributed

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

70 Transitional provision

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Amended by
Act 18 of 2023

Amended by
Act 40 of 2019

Amended by
Act 16 of 2016

Amended by
Act 27 of 2014

Amended by
Act 44 of 2014

Amended by
Act 5 of 2014

Amended by
Act 21 of 2008

Amended by
Act 11 of 2005

Amended by
Act 42 of 2005

Amended by
Act 6 of 2004

Amended by
Act 2 of 1999

Amended by
Act 7 of 1997

Power of court to re-seal

47.—(1) Subject to subsections (3) and (4), where —

(a)

a court of probate in any part of the Commonwealth has, either before, on or after 25 February 1999, granted probate or letters of administration in respect of the estate of a deceased person; or

(b)

a court of probate in a country or territory, being a country or territory declared by the Minister under subsection (5) as a country or territory to which this subsection applies, has, on or after a date specified by the Minister in respect of that country or territory (referred to in this section as the relevant date), granted probate or letters of administration in respect of the estate of a deceased person,

the probate or letters of administration so granted, or a certified copy thereof, sealed with the seal of the court granting the same, may, on being produced to and a copy thereof deposited in the General Division of the High Court, be sealed with the seal of the Family Justice Courts.

[27/2014; 40/2019]

(2) Upon sealing under subsection (1), the probate or letters of administration shall be of the like force and effect, and have the same operation in Singapore, as if granted by the General Division of the High Court to the person by whom or on whose behalf the application for sealing was made.

[40/2019]

(3) Before the probate or letters of administration is sealed with the seal of the Family Justice Courts, the General Division of the High Court may require such evidence as it thinks fit as to the domicile of the deceased person.

[27/2014; 40/2019]

(4) If it appears that the deceased was not, at the time of his death, domiciled within the jurisdiction of the court from which the grant was issued, the seal shall not be affixed unless the grant is such as the General Division of the High Court would have made.

[40/2019]

(5) For the purposes of subsection (1)(b), the Minister may, by notification in the Gazette —

(a)	declare any country or territory, which is not a part of the Commonwealth, as a country or territory to which subsection (1) applies; and
(b)	specify the relevant date in respect of that country or territory which may be a date before, on or after 25 February 1999.

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