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Crown Lands Act 1976
26Transmission without probate or administration in certain cases
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### 26 Transmission without probate or administration in certain cases
> *\[Section 26 Subsection (1) amended by No. 5 of 1990, s. 3 and Sched. 1 \]*
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> > (1) *\[Section 26 Subsection (1) amended by No. 23 of 1978, s. 6 and Sched. 1 \]*Where a purchaser of Crown land under contract has died and the Director-General is of the opinion that the value of the estate left by the purchaser is not sufficient to justify the proving of the will or the taking out of letters of administration, the Director-General may cause transmission of the interest of the purchaser in the land to be entered in the records of the Department in favour of the person entitled to benefit from the death of the purchaser if he died intestate or in favour of the person entitled to a grant of probate or letters of administration with the will annexed if he leaves a will.
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> > (2) The person in whose favour such transmission is entered up shall thereupon have all the rights, powers, and liabilities in respect of the land as he would have had if probate or letters of administration of the estate of the deceased person had been granted to him.