Hong Kong Ordinances

PROBATE AND ADMINISTRATION ORDINANCE - SECT 23B

Advertisements as to unclaimed balance of intestate's estate

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

Adaptation amendments retroactively made - see 67 of 1999 s. 3

(1) If the Official Administrator has been granted administration of an estate
and-

   (a)  a balance of such estate exceeding five hundred dollars remains
        unclaimed; and

   (b)  the persons entitled thereto are not known to him, the Official
        Administrator shall cause advertisements to be published in accordance
        with subsection (2). (Amended 70 of 1972 s. 3)

(2) An advertisement-

   (a)  shall be published in Hong Kong and in any other place where the
        Official Administrator has reason to believe that the persons entitled
        to claim the balance of the estate may be found; and

   (b)  shall be to the effect that if no claim is made to the Official
        Administrator within five years from the first publication of the
        advertisement in Hong Kong the balance from the estate will be
        transferred to the general revenue.

(3) If at the expiration of a period of five years from the date of the first
publication of an advertisement under subsection (2), the Official
Administrator is of the opinion that no claim can reasonably be expected
against the estate he may transfer the balance of the estate to the general
revenue. (Added 71 of 1971 s. 3. Amended 67 of 1999 s. 3)