71CTime for making applications

71C Time for making applications (1) Subject to subsection (2), an application under section 71B in respect of an intestate estate shall be made within a period of 6 months after the date on which administration has been granted in respect of the estate. (2) The Court may, after hearing such of the persons affected as the Court thinks necessary, extend the time in which an application may be made under section 71B. (3) An extension of time in pursuance of this section made be granted: (a) upon such conditions as the Court thinks fit; and (b) whether or not the time for making an application has expired. (4) An application for an extension under this section of the time within which an application under section 71B may be made shall not be made after the intestate estate has been lawfully and fully distributed. (5) An application under section 71B shall, for the purposes of this section, be deemed to have been made on the date upon which the notice of motion or other document instituting the application is filed.