Company may be authorised to apply for probate or administration
10.—(1)  If and whenever any person is entitled to apply for probate of the will of any testator without leave being reserved to any other person to apply for probate, it shall be lawful for the person, whether absent from Singapore or not, and notwithstanding the provisions of any other Act, instead of himself applying for probate, to authorise a trust company to apply to the court for a grant of administration with the will annexed of the estate of the testator, and such a grant may be made to the company upon its own application, when so authorised, but this section does not apply to any case in which a will provides that the company shall not act as executor or in the trusts thereof.
(2)  If and whenever any person is entitled to apply for letters of administration with the will of any testator annexed of the estate of the testator, it shall be lawful for the person, whether absent from Singapore or not, and notwithstanding the provisions of any other Act, to authorise a trust company, either alone or jointly with any other person, to apply to the court for a grant of letters of administration with the will annexed of the estate of the testator, and such a grant may be made to the company upon its own application, when so authorised, but this section does not apply to a case in which a will provides that the company shall not act as executor, or in the trusts thereof.
(3)  It shall be lawful for any person or persons entitled to apply for letters of administration of the estate of any intestate, whether the person or persons are absent from Singapore or not, and notwithstanding the provisions of any other Act, to authorise a trust company to apply to the court for such letters of administration, either alone or jointly with any other person, and administration of the estate of the intestate may be granted to the company, either alone or jointly, upon its own application, when so authorised.
(4)  For the purposes of any application to the court for letters of administration to the estate of any deceased person, the court shall consider a trust company, when authorised under subsection (3), to be in law entitled equally with any other person or class of persons to apply for and obtain a grant, but a trust company, being so entitled, shall not on that account alone be preferred to the widower, widow, or next of kin of any intestate.
Probate, etc., not to be granted to nominee
(5)  No grant of probate or of letters of administration shall be granted to a syndic or nominee on behalf of a trust company.