AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY.

Administration and Probate Ordinance 1943

AMENDMENTS OF THE ADMINISTRATION
AND PROBATE ORDINANCE 1929-1938.

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM.

No. 7 of 1943

	The objects of the amendments are :–

(1)	to remove an anomaly in the Ordinance which deprives the Registrar of Probates of power to grant to the Curator of Estates of Deceased Persons orders to collect and administer the estates of deceased persons; and

(2)	to enable the Registrar of Probates (as well as the Supreme Court itself) to give directions to the Curator as to the investment of moneys standing to the credit of estates which he is administering.