Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Administration and Probate Act 1958 - SECT 28

Duty of personal representative as to inventory and accounts

28. Duty of personal representative as to inventory and accounts



(1) The personal representative of a deceased person shall when lawfully
required so to do exhibit on oath in the Court, a true and perfect inventory
and account of the real and personal estate of the deceased, and the Court
shall have power as heretofore to require personal representatives to bring in
inventories.

(2) Without limiting the generality or effect of the last preceding subsection
every creditor to whom a grant is made in his capacity of creditor shall
deposit or cause to be deposited in the office of the registrar within fifteen
months from the date of the grant a true and just account verified by him by
affidavit of the administration of such estate as to receipts and
disbursements and as to what portion is retained by him and what portion
remains uncollected and whenever on the application of the registrar ordered
by the Court so to do after the expiration of the said fifteen months deposit
in the office of the registrar such accounts verified by him by affidavit as
the Court thinks fit.