Letters of administration cannot be granted to
any person who is a minor or is of unsound mind, 1[nor to any association of individuals unless it is a
company which satisfies the conditions prescribed by rules to be made 2[by notification in the Official
Gazette], by the 3[State Government] in this behalf.]
1. Added by Act 17 of 1931, s. 2. The words nor, unless the deceased was a Hindu, Muhammadan, Buddhist, Sikh, or Jaina or an exempted person, to a married woman without the previous consent of her husband which originally occurred at the end of this section had been omitted by Act 18 of 1927, s. 2.
2. Ins. by Act 20 of 1983, s. 2 and Sch. (w.e.f. 15-3-1984).
3. The words "G.G. in C." have been successively amended by the A.O. 1937 and the A.O. 1950 to read as above.