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Administration of Estates Act, 1965 (Act No. 66 of 1965)

Chapter IV: Tutors and Curators

85. Application of certain sections to tutors and curators

 

Sections seventeen ,twenty-four ,twenty-six , twenty-eight and thirty-six , sub-section (2) of section forty-two , sections forty-six and forty-eight , sub-section (2) of section forty-nine and sections fifty-two , fifty-three ,fifty-four and fifty-six shall mutatis mutandis apply with reference to tutors and curators: Provided that—

a) any reference in any of  the said sections to a will shall, for the purposes of its application under this section, include a reference to any written instrument by which the tutor or curator concerned has been nominated; and
b) notwithstanding the provisions of section seventeen as so applied, letters of curatorship may be granted to a married woman as curatrix of her husband or his property, without his consent.