Examination of accounts by the accountant

(1) At the request and cost of any interested party, every account filed by an executor or administrator with the Registrar as hereinbefore provided, together with all vouchers, books and other documents relating thereto may, at the expiration of three months after the filing of the account, be laid before an accountant who shall thereupon examine and investigate the account and, if it is in order, pass it by certificate indorsed thereon. (2) If the account fails to carry out the terms of the will, if any, or is incomplete or out of order in any other way whatever, the accountant shall report to that effect in writing to the Registrar, giving particulars of the defect or incompleteness of the account, and the Registrar shall thereupon notify the executor or administrator of the estate of it, with a request to complete or amend the account in accordance with the report. (3) The Registrar may, before the account is passed, refer any question of principle or point of law, or the interpretation of any Act arising thereon, to the court to be argued in chambers. (4) The court may in its discretion decide the question without argument and direct the accountant to certify accordingly. (5) For the purposes of this section, the Registrar may, with the approval of the Judge, appoint a fit and proper person as