ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES ACT - 1961 (ACT 63)

Section - 9 - Non-Liability of Administrator-General and Government

When death is proved to the satisfaction of the Administrator-General

(a) by a certified copy of a register of deaths; or

(b) by a certificate of a local authority in an area where there is no compulsory registration of deaths; or

(c) by a certificate of, in the case of a public officer, the official head of the department in which he was employed,

neither the Administrator-General personally nor the Government shall be liable for any loss incurred through a fraudulent or innocent misrepresentation concerning the death in question.