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SECTION. Administration of Estates by Consular Officers [Cap. 46 439 CHAPTER 46. ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES BY CONSULAR OFFICERS. WHEREAS it is expedient that effect should be given in Sierra Leone to the provisions of certain Treaties of Commerce and Navigation mentioned in the Schedule hereto.

Estates by Consular Officers Ordinance, and shall apply to the Colony and Protectorate.

( ) d. . hi s· L Consular a 1es wit n 1erra eone, or Officers. (b) dies outside Sierra Leone, leaving property within Sierra Leone, and no person other than the Official Administrator is present in Sierra Leone at the time of his death who is rightfully entitled to administer the estate of such deceased person, the Consul, Vice-Consul or Consular Agent of such State within Sierra Leone may take possession and have the custody of the property of such deceased person, and may apply the same in payment of his debts and funeral expenses, and may retain the surplus for the benefit of the persons entitled thereto; but such Consul, Vice-Consul or Consular Agent shall immediately apply for, and 440 Cap. 46] Administration of Estates by Consular O.fficers Variation of Schedue. shall be entitled to obtain from the Court, Letters of Administration of the property of such deceased person, limited in such manner and for such time as to the Court shall seem fit.

It shall be lawful for the Governor by Order published inthe Gazette to vary the Schedule- (a) by deleting therefrom any State when the provisions of the Treaty with that State mentioned in the Schedule shall have ceased to have effect; (b) by adding thereto any State with whom Her Majesty shall make a Treaty of Commerce and Navigation containing provision similar to any of the provisions mentioned in the Schedule. SCHEDULE.* Name of Title of Treaty. I Date of Treaty. Provision. State. Finland ... Treaty of Commerce and 14th December, 1923 Article 19 Navigation between the (third United Kingdom and paragraph) Finland Estonia ... Treaty of Commerce and 18th January, 1926 Article 22 Estonia Hungary ... Treaty of Commerce and 23rd July, 1926 Article 14 Hungary Yugoslavia ... Treaty of Commerce and 12th May, 1927 Article 24 United Kingdom and the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes Turkey ... Treaty of Commerce and 1st March, 1930 Article 28 Turkey Roumania ... Treaty of Commerce and 6th August, 1930 Article 28 Roumania Thailand ... Treaty of Commerce and 23rd Nov,ember, 1937 Article 19 Siam (Thailand) *There are also the following Consular Conventions, concluded in 1951 or there· after, which contain clauses providing for the administration of estates by Co?su~ar Officers, and the preambles of which state that their provisions shall apply to all terntones for whose international relations the United Kingdom is responsible- Administration of Estates by Consular Officers [Cap. 46 441 Name of Title of Convention. Date of Provision. State. Convention. Norway ... Consular Convention between 22nd February, 1951 Part VI the United Kingdom and Norway Article 22 United States Consular Convention between 6th June, 1951 Part VII the United Kingdom and Article 18 the United States France ... Consular Convention between 31st December, 1951 Part VI the United Kingdom and Article 29 France Sweden ... Consular Convention between 14th March, 1952 Part VI the United Kingdom and Article 22 Sweden Greece ... Consular Convention between 17th April, 1953 Part VI the United Kingdom and Article 22 Greece Mexico ... Consular Convention between 20th March, 1954 Part VI the United Kingdom and Article 23 Mexico Italy ... ... Consular Convention between 1st June, 1954 Part VI the United Kingdom and Article 23 Italy Germany ... Consular Convention between 30th July, 1956 Part VI the United Kingdom and Article 21 Germany