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CONSOLIDATED TO 30 JUNE 2012

LAWS OF SEYCHELLES

CHAPTER 2

ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES BY CONSULAR OFFICERS ACT

[18^th December.1940]

Act 17 of 1940

S.I. 95 of 1975

S.I. 72 of 1976

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

1.                  Short title

2.                  Administration of Estates by Consular Officers

3.                  Variation of Schedule

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WHEREAS it is expedient that effect should be given in Seychelles to the provisions of certain Treaties of Commerce and Navigation mentioned in the schedule hereto –

1.                  This Act may be cited as the Administration of Estates by Consular Officers Act.

2.                  Whenever any subject or citizen of any State mentioned in the first column of the schedule hereto –

(a)                dies within Seychelles; or

(b)               dies outside Seychelles, leaving property within Seychelles;

and no person is present in Seychelles at the time of his death who is rightfully entitled to administer the estate such deceased person, the Consul, Vice-Consul, or Consular Agent of such State within Seychelles may take possession and have the custody of the property od such deceased person, and may apply the same in payment of his debt and funeral expenses, and may retain the surplus for the benefit of the persons entitled thereto; but such Consul, Vice-Consul, or Consular Agent shall immediately apply for, and shall be entitled to obtain from the court, letters of administration of the property of such deceased person, limited in such manner and for such time as to the court shall seem fit.

3.         It shall be lawful for the President by notice published in the Gazette to vary the schedule –

            (a)        by deleting therefrom any State when the provision of the Treaty with that State mentioned in the schedule shall have ceased to have effect;

            (b)        by adding thereto any State with whom the Republic shall make a Treaty of Commerce and Navigation containing provision similar to any of the provisions mentioned in the schedule.

SCHEDULE

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