{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/administration-of-estates-act-1971/section-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/administration-of-estates-act-1971/section-9.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1971/25",
  "legislation_title": "Administration of Estates Act 1971",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/administration-of-estates-act-1971",
  "path": "section/9",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Duties of personal representatives.",
  "text": "For section 25 of the Administration of Estates Act 1925 (duty of personal representatives as to inventory and account) there shall be substituted the following section:—\n“Duty of personal representatives.\n25 The personal representative of a deceased person shall be under a duty to—\n(a) collect and get in the real and personal estate of the deceased and administer it according to law;\n(b) when required to do so by the court, exhibit on oath in the court a full inventory of the estate and when so required render an account of the administration of the estate to the court;\n(c) when required to do so by the High Court, deliver up the grant of probate or administration to that court.”",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1925 c. 23."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "The text of ss. 7, 9, and 12(1) is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/25/section/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:50:14.316835+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}