Hong Kong Ordinances

PROBATE AND ADMINISTRATION ORDINANCE - SECT 46

Power to require administrators to produce sureties

As a condition of granting administration to any person the court may, subject
to the provisions of section 47 and subject to and in accordance with probate
rules and orders, require one or more sureties to guarantee that they will
make good, within any limit imposed by the court on the total liability of the
surety or sureties, any loss which any person interested in the administration
of the estate of the deceased may suffer in consequence of a breach by the
administrator of his duties as such. [cf. 1925 c. 49 s. 167(1) U.K.]