ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES ACT - 1961 (ACT 63)

Section - 30 - Barring of claims

(1) When the Administrator-General has given the prescribed notice for creditors and others to send in their claims against the estate of the deceased, he shall, at the expiration of the time therein named for sending in claims, be at liberty to distribute the assets or any part thereof in discharge of such lawful claims as he has notice of.

(2) He shall not be liable, for the assets so distributed, to any person of whose claim he had not notice at the time of the distribution.

(3) No notice of any claim which has been sent in and has been rejected, or disallowed in part by the Administrator-General shall affect him unless proceedings to enforce the claim are commenced within two months after notice of rejection or disallowance of the claim has been given and unless proceedings are prosecuted without unreasonable delay.

(4) This section shall not prejudice the right of any creditor or other claimant to follow the assets or any part thereof in the hands of the persons who may have received them.

(5) In computing the period of limitation, if any, for any suit, appeal or application under the provisions of any law for the time being in force, the period between the date of submission of the claim of a creditor to the Administrator-General and the date of the final decision of the Administrator-General on the claim shall be excluded.