ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES ACT - 1961 (ACT 63)

Section - 56 - Power to Adminstrator-General to appoint agents

(1) The Administrator-General may appoint such person or persons, as he thinks fit, to act as his agent or agents for the preservation of the assets under section 19 of this Act or in the managing, collection, and getting in of the assets and in payment of the liabilities and the distribution of the assets of a deceased person whose estate is in the course of administration by him. The agent or agents shall in all respects act under the direction of the Administrator-General, who shall not be answerable for any act or omission of any agent not in conformity with his direction, or which would not have happened by the Administrator-General's own fault or neglect.

(2) Every agent shall find security, to the satisfaction of the Administrator-General, for the performance of his duty.

(3) Agents may be remunerated either by salary or such fees as the Administrator-General with the approval of the Minister may decide.