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and shall conform to any direction of the Court in relation to the custody,,
disposal, or transmission of the property or the proceeds thereof, and, in
case of any contravention of this Article, he shall be punished with a fine r
which may extend to 1,000 rupees.
45. Where a person to whom this Order applies is named executor in
a will and survives the testator, but either dies without having obtained
probate or, having been called on by the Court to apply for probace
1 does not appear, his right in respect of the executorship wholly ceases;
and, without further renunciation, the representation of the testator and
the administration of his property shall go and may be committed as if
that person had not been appointed executor.
46. Where it appears to the Court that the value of the property or
estate of a deceased person subject to this Order does not exceed 1,500
rupees the Court may, without my probate, letters of administration or
other formal proceeding, pay thereout any debts or charges and pay, remit
or deliver any surplus to such persons and in such manner as the Court
thinks proper, and no member or Officer of the Court shall be liable to
any action, suit, or proceedings in respect of anything done under this
Article.
47. The Foreign Jurisdiction Probates Order in Council, 1935,(a) shall
apply to all persons and to all property subject to this Order.
48. —(1) When the circumstances of the case appear to the District
Court so to require, for reasons recorded in its proceedings, the Court
may, if it thinks fit, of its own motion or otherwise, grant letters of ad
ministration to an Officer of the Court.
(2) The Officer so appointed shall act under the direction of the Court,
and shall be indemnified thereby.
(3) He shall publish such notices, if any, as the Court thinks fit, in
Qatar, the Persian Coast and Islands, Bombay, the United Kingdom,
and elsewhere.
(4) The Court shall require and compel him to file in the proper Office
of the Court his accounts of his administration at intervals not exceeding
three months, and shall forthwith examine them and report thereon to
the Chief Court.
(5) The accounts shall be audited under the direction of the District
Court.
(6) All expenses incurred on behalf of the Court in execution of this
article shall be the first charge on the estate of the deceased as dealt with
in accordance with the provisions of this Order; and the Court shall, by
the sale of that estate or otherwise, provide for the discharge of those
expenses.
49. In cases where parties are Muhammadans the District Court may
refer any question concerning probate of wills or administration of
property of deceased persons to whom this Order applies to a Qazi for
settlement under the general supervision of the Court.
(a) S. R. & O. 1935, No. 896-