On 23/05/2013,
you requested for the version in force on 23/05/2013
incorporating all amendments published on or before 23/05/2013.
The closest version currently available is that of 14/01/2011.
3. Section 3 of the principal Act is amended —
(a)
by deleting the words “10 years of the date of the death of the deceased person” in subsection (4) and substituting the words “5 years from the date of the death of the deceased person, or within any extension thereof allowed under subsection (12),”; and
(b)
by inserting, immediately after subsection (12), the following subsections:
“(12A) The Controller may, when allowing an extension of time under subsection (12), impose such conditions as he thinks fit, including a condition that the legal personal representatives shall provide such security as may be determined by the Controller for the purposes of complying with any condition imposed by the Controller.
(12B) If the legal personal representatives fail to comply with any of the conditions imposed by the Controller under subsection (12A), the Controller may forfeit (in part or whole) the security provided by the legal personal representatives under this section, after giving 21 days’ notice in writing to the legal personal representatives of his intention to forfeit the security and the grounds thereof.
(12C) The legal personal representatives may, upon receipt of the notice under subsection (12B), appeal to the Minister within 3 months from the date of that notice.
(12D) The Minister may determine an appeal under subsection (12C) by confirming or varying the Controller’s decision to forfeit the security, or by ordering the refund (in part or whole) of any security forfeited under subsection (12B); and the decision of the Minister on any such appeal shall be final and shall not be called in question in any court.”.