CHAPTER 21
CONSULAR CONVENTIONS ACT

Arrangement of Sections

   Section

   1.   Short title

   2.   Powers of consular officers in relation to property in the Republic of deceased persons

   3.   Supplementary provisions as to section 2

   4.   Application of section 2

AN ACT

to confer upon the consular officers of foreign States with which consular conventions are concluded certain powers relating to the administration of the estates and property of deceased persons; and to provide for matters incidental thereto or connected therewith.

[13th July, 1951]

Act 2 of 1951,

Act 31 of 1956,

GN 497 of 1964.

1. Short title

This Act may be cited as the Consular Conventions Act.

2. Powers of consular officers in relation to property in the Republic of deceased persons

   (1) Where any person who is a national of a State to which this section applies is named as executor in the will of a deceased person disposing of property in the Republic, or is otherwise a person to whom a grant of representation to the estate in the Republic of a deceased person may be made, then if the Court is satisfied, on the application of a consular officer of such State, that such national is not resident in the Republic, and if no application for a grant of such representation is made by a person duly authorised by power of attorney to act for him in that behalf, the Court shall make to that officer any such grant of representation to the estate of the deceased as would be made to him if he were so authorised as aforesaid:

Provided that the Court may, if it thinks fit, postpone the making of a grant by virtue of this section during such period as the Court considers appropriate having regard to the circumstances of the case.