Section 18

the value of the property without deduction for debts, but not including the value of any property which the deceased possessed or was entitled to as trustee and not beneficially, does not exceed five thousand ringgit;

it appears to the Corporation that the persons beneficially entitled are persons of small means; and

the Corporation can administer the estate under section 17, the Corporation shall administer the estate under section 17.

Where proceedings have been instituted in any Court for the administration of an estate and by reason of the small value of the estate it appears to the Court that the estate can be more economically administered by the Corporation than by the

Court or that for any other reason it is expedient that the estate should be administered by the Corporation instead of the Court, the Court may order that the estate shall be administered by the

Corporation, and thereupon, subject to any directions by the Court, section 17 shall apply as if the administration of the estate had been undertaken by the Corporation under section 17.

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Payment of minor’s maintenance