Land Act, 1936

Appointment of limited administrators in certain cases.

20.—Where, in any proceedings under the Land Purchase Acts, the Land Commission makes an advance for the improvement of a holding or of a parcel of land and the owner of such holding or parcel is dead and there is no legal personal representative of such deceased owner or the services of the legal personal representative of such deceased owner are not conveniently available for the purposes of such proceedings, the Land Commission may, on such terms and conditions (if any) as they may think proper, appoint some proper person to be the administrator of the personal estate of such deceased owner limited to the purposes of the said proceedings, and upon such appointment being made the person thereby appointed to be such limited administrator shall, for the purposes of the said proceedings, represent such deceased owner in the same manner as if such deceased owner had died intestate and letters of his personal estate and effects had been duly granted to the said person so appointed to be such limited administrator.