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215. If one of the causes for the refusal of guardianship mentioned in the previous section shall be applicable to the person appointed as a guardian the said person shall signify his refusal within one week after the receipt of notification of his appointment. A person who shall not signify his refusal in the said manner shall be deemed to have accepted the appointment.

216. The Department of Social Welfare on ascertaining that the refusal to accept the appointment as a guardian is well founded, shall appoint another person to the guardianship. Nevertheless, the person first. appointed guardian, despite his refusal to accept the said appointment, shall execute the duties of his office prior to the entry of the subsequently appointed guardian upon the duties of the same.

217. The duties of the guardianship shall devolve upon the person appointed to the same by the Department of Social Welfare immediately upon the receipt of the notification of the appointment.

218. The termination of a guardianship or the existence of the conditions mentioned in Section 208 shall operate to suspend the duties of a guardian.

219. An appointment of a guardian may be revoked by a decree of the Department of Social