Expense of legal personal representative must be assessed
178.  The expense of preparing, making, verifying or lodging any account, list or statement required by regulation 83 of the Bankruptcy Regulations and incurred by the legal representative of a deceased debtor in respect of whom an administration order under section 419 of the Act is made must be assessed and allowed out of the estate in accordance with rules 147, 155 to 160, 162 to 166, 168 and 169, and for this purpose —
(a)a reference in any of those rules to a bankrupt is to be read as a reference to the deceased debtor; and
(b)a reference in any of those rules to a trustee in bankruptcy is to be read as a reference to the Official Assignee as trustee of the property of the deceased debtor.
[S 196/2022 wef 01/04/2022]