6: Application for Letters of Administration or Succession certificates

(1) An application for the grant of Letter of Administration or Succession Certificate, as the case may be, shall be made to the Authority by the legal heirs: Provided that legal heirs may also authorize in the prescribed form, one amongst themselves, to act on behalf of all other legal heirs, for the purpose of filing an application under this Act. 3 (2) An application may be filed in the notified office of the Authority within whose jurisdiction the deceased ordinarily resided at the time of his death, or within whose jurisdiction any property or asset of the deceased is located. (3) The following documents shall be appended along with the application, namely: (a) death certificate of the deceased; (b) list of the legal heirs and copies of their national identity cards; (c) an authorization in the prescribed form by the legal heirs in favour of the applicant as provided in proviso to sub-section (1); and (d) details of immovable and movable property in respect of which the Letter of Administration or Succession Certificate is applied for. (4) Upon receipt of the application under sub-section (1), a notice to the general public shall be published on a web portal to be maintained by the Authority and in one English language and one Urdu language daily newspaper of wide circulation. (5) Where no objection or claim is received within fourteen days of the publication of notice, the Authority shall, in any of its notified offices, obtain the biometric verification of the applicant and all the legal heirs: Provided that where biometrics of a legal heir is not verified, the Authority may require the legal heir to appear in person before the Authority on a date fixed by the Authority: Provided further that the Authority may resort to any other modern device with a view to satisfying itself as to the identity of any legal heir. Explanation: The biometric verification can be undertaken at any notified office within Pakistan or abroad. (6) Upon satisfactory compliance of the codal formalities mentioned in this section, the applicant shall appear before the Authority on a date fixed by it, whereafter the Authority shall issue the Letter of Administration or Succession Certificate, as the case may be, in favour of all legal heirs of the deceased with details of their respective shares as provided in the personal law of such legal heirs. (7) The Letters of Administration or Succession Certificates issued under this Act shall have the same effect as if the same have been issued under the Succession Act, 1925 (XXXIX of 1925).

Effective date: 2021-05-05

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