Administration of estates of persons dying intestate and without next-of-kin and leaving real property only or real and personal property

(1) Where a person dies, or is reasonably believed by the Public Trustee to have died, intestate and without next-of-kin or without having appointed any executor resident or duly represented in Belize, and leaves real estate only or real and personal estate and effects, the Public Trustee shall file with the Registrar an information setting forth the circumstances and praying for letters of administration to administer the estate of such deceased person, and such letters shall thereon be immediately granted. (2) The Registrar shall forthwith notify, in like manner as he may be required to notify applications for letters of administration, the grant of such letters, and that at the end of one month from the date of their grant the Public Trustee may proceed, and he is hereby authorised and required to proceed to administer the estate, unless in the meantime letters of administration shall be granted to some other person. (3) The Public Trustee shall stand possessed of all real and personal property, remaining un-disposed of after the administration of any such estate in terms of the letters of administration granted to him, for the benefit of the person or authority to whom the same belongs in law.