Administration of Estates (Amendment) Act, 2006
An Act amending Sierra Leone's law on the administration of deceased persons' estates, updating aspects of how estates are managed and distributed.
Summary
The Administration of Estates (Amendment) Act, 2006 amends the existing law governing the administration of the estates of deceased persons in Sierra Leone. That body of law regulates how a dead person's property is collected, debts are paid and the balance distributed, including the grant of probate to executors and letters of administration to administrators.
The amendment adjusts particular provisions of the principal Act to modernise or correct the estate-administration regime. As an amending statute it operates by altering, inserting or replacing specified provisions of the law it amends, and must be read together with that principal legislation.
Main provisions
- Amends specified provisions of the principal Administration of Estates legislation.
- Concerns the management, administration and distribution of the estates of deceased persons.
- Relates to the machinery for grants of probate and letters of administration.
- Takes effect as part of, and is read together with, the principal Act it amends.