when so invested shall receive interest at the rate of 4 percent per year upon
the market value, to be computed as at the date of the testator’s death, of such
part of the fund as has not yet been so invested.
310. Procedure when minor entitled to immediate payment or
possession of bequest.
(1) Where, by the terms of a bequest, the legatee is entitled to the
immediate payment or possession of the money or thing bequeathed but is a
minor, and there is no direction in the will to pay it to any person on his or
her behalf, the executor or administrator shall pay or deliver it into the High
Court or to the district delegate, by whom the probate was, or letters of
administration with the will annexed were, granted, to the account of the
legatee, and that payment shall be a sufficient discharge for the money so
paid.
(2) Such money, when paid in, may be invested as the judge or the
district delegate shall direct.
311. Procedure in respect of share of minor in intestacy.
(1) Where any person entitled to a share in the distribution of the
estate of an intestate is a minor, the personal representative shall pay or
deliver the share into the court by which probate or letters of administration
were granted to the account of that minor, and the share may be invested in
such securities as are authorised by law.
(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), the court may, on its own motion
or on the application of the personal representative or any other person,
appoint the parent or guardian of the minor or the personal representative or
the public trustee or some other suitable person to receive the share of the
minor on his or her behalf, and in such case payment to the person so
appointed shall be a sufficient discharge of the personal representative.
(3)
General.
The provisions of this section shall not apply to the Administrator
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