Hong Kong Ordinances

PROBATE AND ADMINISTRATION ORDINANCE - SECT 47

Effect of guarantee

(1) A guarantee given in pursuance of any requirement under section  46 shall
ensure for the benefit of every person interested in the administration of the
estate of the deceased as if contained in a contract under seal made by the
surety or sureties with every such person and, where there are two or more
sureties, as if they had bound themselves jointly and severally.

(2) No action shall be brought on any such guarantee without the leave of the
court.

(3) No sureties shall be required where administration is granted to the
Official Administrator or to the consular officer of a State to which
section 3 of the Consular Conventions Ordinance ( Cap 267) applies or in such
other cases as may be prescribed by probate rules and orders. [cf. 1925 c. 49
s. 167(2) U.K.]