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5. Property of intestate to be distributed
Feedback & supportIf a person dies intestate after 2 June 1967, he being at the time of his death —
intestate
Defined · s 3
“intestate” includes any person who leaves a will but dies intestate as to some beneficial interest in his property;
(a)
domiciled in Singapore and possessed beneficially of property, whether movable or immovable, or both, situated in Singapore; or
(b)
domiciled outside Singapore and possessed beneficially of immovable property situated in Singapore,that property or the proceeds thereof, after payment thereout of the expenses of due administration as prescribed by the Probate and Administration Act 1934, shall be distributed among the persons entitled to succeed beneficially to that property or the proceeds thereof.