Rights and duties of administrator
13 Rights and duties of administrator
A person to whom administration of the estate of a deceased person is granted—
has, subject to any limitations in the grant, the same rights and liabilities as the person would have if the person were the executor of the deceased person; and
is accountable in the same way as the person would be accountable if the person were the executor of the deceased person.
This section was relocated from the Imperial Acts (Substituted Provisions) Act 1986, sch 2, pt 4 (for the effect of a relocation, see Legislation Act 2001, s 96). The 1986 Act substituted provisions for certain UK Acts that applied (or may have applied) in the ACT and repealed those Acts. The provisions of sch 2, pt 4 were substituted for 31 Edw. 3, St. 1, c 11 (1357) and 1 Jas. 2 c 17, s 6 (1685). The 1986 Act, s 4 (1) provided, in effect, that the rules of law about the interpretation of consolidating Acts apply to the interpretation of the provisions of a law set out in sch 2. These rules of law continue to apply to this section (see Legislation Act 2001, s 96 (3)).
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