40DEffect of revoking grant

#### 40D Effect of revoking grant 40D Effect of revoking grant > > (1) If a grant of probate or administration is revoked, the provisions of this section shall have effect. > > > (2) The executor or administrator under the revoked grant shall be bound duly to account and to pay and transfer all money and property received by or vested in the executor or administrator and then remaining in the executor’s or administrator’s hands as the Court may direct, but shall not be liable for any money or property paid or transferred by the executor or administrator in good faith under the probate or administration before the revocation. > > > > Nothing in this subsection shall affect any commission protection indemnity reimbursement or right to which the executor or administrator is entitled under any other provision of this Act. > > > (3) The revocation shall not invalidate any payment or transfer lawfully made by or to the executor or administrator in the course of administration before the revocation, but nothing in this subsection shall prejudice the right of any person to follow assets into the hands of the persons or any of them among whom the same may have been distributed, or who may have received the same. > > > (3A) No action shall lie against the Registrar-General for loss, damage or deprivation suffered in consequence of the registration of a transfer or other dealing with land under the provisions of the [Real Property Act 1900](/view/html/inforce/current/act-1900-025) lawfully made by the executor or administrator before the revocation. > > > (4) In any case where a grant of probate or administration is revoked under section 40C the person, or if the person has died since the date of the grant, the executor or administrator to whom a grant of probate or administration is made consequent on the revocation, shall be entitled to receive from the Consolidated Revenue Fund the amount of death duty paid thereto in respect of the revoked grant. > > > (5) The Court may make such vesting order as it deems proper. > > > (6) The provisions of this section, with the exception of subsection (4), shall extend to a case where the grant of probate or administration was made before, as well as to a case where the grant is made after the commencement of the [Wills Probate and Administration (Amendment) Act 1932](/view/pdf/asmade/act-1932-49). > > **s 40D:** Ins 1932 No 49, sec 2. Am 1938 No 30, sec 6 (c); 1970 No 52, Second Sch; 1994 No 32, Sch 3.