ALIEN ENEMY ESTATES

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20083, 1 November 1939, Page 2

ALIEN ENEMY ESTATES

PROBATE REGULATIONS ADMINISTRATION RULES New requirements in connection with the granting of probate and letters of administration are described in the Supreme Court emergency rules, which are now in force. An explanation of the rules has been given bv the Attorney-General, the lion. 11. G. R. Mason, who said that they were complementary to the enemy property emergency regulations which were recently issued. The Supreme Court emergency rules, said Mr. Mason, provide that, upon any application for a grant of probate or letters of administration, there shall be filed adidavits stating whether or not the applicant is an alien enemy and also whether the deceased person was or was not at the time of his death an alien enemy within the meaning of the enemy property emergency regulations. Mr. Mason explained that the regulations provided that, except with the conlent of the Attorney-General, no alien enemy nor any person on his behalf should he concerned in. making any application to the Supreme Court for probate or letters of administration of the estate of a deceased person.

It was also provided that no person should, without the consent of the Attorney-General, be concerned in any such application relating to the estate of a person who on his death was an alien enemy. The regulations prohibited v/ithout the consent of the Attorney-General the distribution of the estate of a deceased person to any beneficiary or creditor who was an alien enemy.