Subsection 1: Procedures applicable to gifts (R).

Any notary appointed as custodian of a will containing a legacy in favour of a department or a departmental public establishment, is required, as soon as the will is opened, to send the president of the departmental council or the representative of the legatee establishment, the full copy of the testamentary provisions. The copy is written on plain paper and a receipt is issued for the documents transmitted.

Claims concerning legacies in favour of a department or a departmental public establishment, made by the legal heirs, may be submitted to the Minister of the Interior within six months of the opening of the will. They include the surnames, first names and addresses of the claimants, their order and degree of relationship to the deceased, and the grounds for the claim. The Minister of the Interior informs the president…