Transfer of Assets From the State to Executor Or Administrator in Country of Domicile for Distribution.

Where a person not having his domicile in the ¹[Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir] has died leaving assets both in the ¹[Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir] and in the country in which he had his domicile at the time of his death,

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and there have been a grant of probate or letters of administration in the state with respect to the assets there and a grant of administration in the country of domicile with respect to the assets in that country,

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the executor or administrator, as the case may be, in the ¹[Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir], after having given such notices as are mentioned in section 139 and after having discharged, at the expiration of the time therein named, such lawful claims as he knows of,

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may, instead of himself distributing any surplus or residue of the deceased’s property to persons residing out of the ¹[Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir] who are entitled thereto, transfer, with the consent of the executor or administrator, as the case may be, in the country of domicile, the surplus or residue to him for distribution to those persons.