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ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1955 - SECT 16

Rights of the Crown.

16.(1) In default of any person taking the estate of an intestate under the
foregoing provisions of this Part, that estate shall pass to the Crown as bona
vacantia.

(2) Nothing in this section shall affect the operation, in relation to any
tenancy to which section three of the Land Law (Ireland) Act, 1881, applies,
of so much of that section as provides that where the tenant of such a tenancy
dies intestate and without leaving any person entitled to his personal estate,
or any part thereof, the tenancy shall pass to the landlord, subject, however,
to the debts and liabilities of the deceased tenant.

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