Section 16
Corrective affidavits
of Administration of Estates Ordinance, 1933
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(1)
Any asset omitted from the inventory required by section 5(a), may be declared by a further affidavit, and the asset added by the Probate Officer to the list annexed to the grant, after payment of such further duty and interest as may be due on it.
(2)
If an asset (not exempted under section 4(1)) has been knowingly omitted from the inventory the person making the affidavit shall on conviction in a High Court* be liable to a fine which may amount to ten times the value of the asset omitted and to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years, and on conviction in a Sessions Court* to a like fine not exceeding five hundred ringgit and to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years.