Cap. 10activeordinance

Probate and Administration Ordinance

遺囑認證及遺產管理條例

Full legislation

s.57

Protection of persons acting on probate or administration

(1)
Every person making or permitting to be made any payment or disposition in good
                faith under a representation shall be indemnified and protected in so doing,
                notwithstanding any defect or circumstance whatsoever affecting the validity of the
                    representation.
[cf. 1925 c. 23
                    s. 27(1) U.K.]
(2)
Where a representation is revoked, all payments and dispositions made in good
                faith to a personal representative under the representation before the revocation
                thereof are a valid discharge to the person making the same; and the personal
                representative who acted under the revoked representation may retain and reimburse
                himself in respect of any payments or dispositions made by him which the person to
                whom representation is afterwards granted might have properly made.
[cf. 1925 c. 23 s. 27(2)
                    U.K.]
(3)
All transfers and conveyances of any interest in property made to a purchaser
                either before or after the
                commencement*
                of this Ordinance by a person to whom probate or letters of administration have been
                granted are valid, notwithstanding any subsequent revocation or variation, either
                before or after the
                commencement*
                of this Ordinance, of the probate or administration.
[cf. 1925 c. 23 s. 37(1)
                U.K.]
(4)
This section takes effect without prejudice to any order of the court made
                before the
                commencement*
                of this Ordinance and applies whether the testator or intestate died before or after
                such
                    commencement*.
[cf. 1925 c. 23 s. 37(2)
                    U.K.]