[(1) deleted]
(2) Where any such
executor or administrator is a member of Her Majesty’s naval, military,
or air force (including a member of any medical corps nursing service attached
to any of the forces aforesaid) and is a prisoner of war or posted as missing
or otherwise is unable or able only with great difficulty to appoint an
attorney, the Court may on the application of a co-executor or a beneficiary
or a creditor or any of the persons to whom the Table following section 14(1)
would refer if there was an intestacy as to all or any of the property in the
estate appoint such co-executor or some other person resident in this State to
have and exercise all or such of the powers, duties, and discretions of such
first-mentioned executor or administrator and for such period or periods as
the Court shall deem proper.
[Section 141 amended: No. 21 of 1942 s. 4; No. 80
of 1962 s. 8; No. 57 of 1984 s. 6.]