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Solomon and Gilbert Islands (Intestates' Estate) Regulation 1911

UNITEED KINGDOM

SOLOMON AND GILBERT ISLANDS (INTESTATES’ ESTATE)
REGULATION, 1911
No. I. of 1911.

L.S.

F.H.MAY.

KING’S REGULATION

TO PROVIDE FOR THE DEVOLUTION IN CERTAIN CASES OF
THE ESTATE OF PERSONS DYING INTESTATE.

Made by His Britannic Majesty’s High Commissioner for the Western Pacific under and by the authority of His Majesty’s Commission.
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In the name of His Majesty, George the Fifth, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas King, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India.

Short title.
1. This Regulation may be cited as the Solomon and Gilbert Islands (Intestates’ Estate) Regulation, 1911.

Interpretation.
2. In this Regulation –

“the Protectorate” means the Protectorate of the British Solomon Islands and the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Protectorates wherein is the particular estate which becomes subject to the provisions of this Regulation;

“Resident Commissioner” means the Resident Commissioner of that Protectorate;

“Estate” means all estate of whatsoever nature.

Transfer and vesting of intestate’s estate.
3. (1) After the expiration of five years from the date when administration of the estate of an intestate person was granted or assumed, or, if no administration thereof has been granted or assumed, from the date of the death of an intestate person, that estate, or the unadministered portion thereof, as the case may be, which shall be then unclaimed, or the persons entitled in distribution to which shall be unknown, shall be deemed to be transferred and vested in the Resident Commissioner for the use and benefit of His Majesty’s Government of the Protectorate.

Establishment of claims thereto.
(2) If, within five years from the date of transfer and vesting aforesaid, any person shall lay claim to the estate, or any portion thereof, and shall prove his title thereto to the satisfaction of the Resident Commissioner, who may require the claimant to prove his claim before a court of law, the same shall be transferred, or paid without interest from the general revenue of the Protectorate, to that person.

(3) After the expiration of the last-mentioned period of five years no claim to the estate or any portion thereof shall be entertained by the Resident Commissioner, or by any court of law, and same shall be deemed to have been transferred to, and to have vested in, the Resident Commissioner, for the use and benefit aforesaid, absolutely.

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Published and exhibited in the Public Office of the High Commissioner for the Western Pacific this second day of May, one thousand nine hundred and eleven.

By Command,

C.H.HART-DAVIS,
Secretary to His Britannic Majesty’s High Commissioner
for the Western Pacific.

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