--(1) An executor, administrator or trustee may apply for-
----(a) the determination of any question; or
----(b) any relief,
--without bringing an administration claim.
--(2) The "determination of any question" includes-
----(a) any question arising in the administration of the estate of a deceased person;
----(b) any question arising in the execution of a trust;
----(c) any question as to the composition of any class of persons having a claim against-
--------(i) the estate of a deceased person;
--------(ii) a beneficial interest in the estate of a deceased person; or
--------(iii) any property subject to a trust; and
----(d) any question as to the rights or interests of a person claiming to be-
--------(i) a creditor of the estate of a deceased person;
--------(ii) entitled under a will or on the intestacy of a deceased person; or
--------(iii) beneficially entitled under a trust.
--(3) "Any relief " includes an order-
----(a) requiring an executor, administrator or trustee to furnish and verify accounts;
----(b) requiring the payment into court of money held by a person in his capacity as executor, administrator or trustee;
----(c) directing a person to do or abstain from doing a particular act in his capacity as executor, administrator or trustee;
----(d) approving any sale, purchase, compromise or other transaction by a person in his capacity as executor, administrator or trustee; and
----(e) directing any act to be done in the administration of the estate of a deceased person or in the execution of a trust which the court could order to be done if the estate or trust were being administered or executed under the direction of the court.
Notes
Amended by Legal Notice 140 of 2000.
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