Part II Executors and Administrators
General Provisions
C19F1 Vesting of estate in Public Trustee where intestacy or lack of executors.
C21
Where a person dies intestate, his real and personal estate shall vest in the Public Trustee until the grant of administration.
C22
Where a testator dies and—
a
at the time of his death there is no executor with power to obtain probate of the will, or
b
at any time before probate of the will is granted there ceases to be any executor with power to obtain probate,
the real and personal estate of which he disposes by the will shall vest in the Public Trustee until the grant of representation.
3
The vesting of real or personal estate in the Public Trustee by virtue of this section does not confer on him any beneficial interest in, or impose on him any duty, obligation or liability in respect of, the property.