40(1)If the next-of-kin of a deceased, residing in the Province and regularly entitled to administer the estate, is absent from the Province, the Court may grant a temporary administration to the applicant or to such other person as the Court thinks fit, for a limited time or subject to revocation upon the return of that next-of-kin to the Province.

40(2)The administrator appointed under subsection (1) shall give such security as the Court directs, and has all the rights and powers of an administrator and is subject to the immediate control of the Court.