Section 32

Where a person dies wholly intestate as to his person-al estate but without having appointed an executor thereof willing and competent to take probate, or where the execu-tor is, at the time of the death of such person, resident out of

Probate and Administration

Brunei, or where it appears to the Probate Officer to be necessary or convenient to appoint some person to be the administrator of the personal estate of the deceased person or of any part of such estate, other than the person who, if this Act had not been passed, would by law have been enti-tled to a grant of administration of such personal estate, it shall be lawful for the Probate Officer to appoint such per-son as the Probate Officer thinks fit to be such administra-tor, on his giving such security, if any, as may be required under this Part or as the Probate Officer may direct, and every such administration may be limited in such manner as the Probate Officer thinks fit.