The District Probate Registries Order 1982

Made: 25th February 1982

Laid in Parliament: 23rd March 1982

Coming into Operation: 20th April 1982

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the power conferred on him by section 104 of the Supreme Court Act 1981, hereby makes the following Order:—

1

This Order may be cited as the District Probate Registries Order 1982 and shall come into operation on 20th April 1982.

2

District probate registries shall be established at the places specified in column 1 of the Schedule to this Order.

3

District probate sub-registries shall be established at the places specified in column 2 of the Schedule to this Order, and each sub-registry shall be attached to and under the control of the registrar of the district probate registry appearing opposite it in column 1 of the Schedule to this Order.

4

Every district probate registrar shall arrange for an officer of a district probate registry or of a district probate sub-registry to attend, for the purpose of personal applications for a grant of probate or administration, at such places and such times as may be specified by the Lord Chancellor, and any such place may be styled a probate office.

5

The District Probate Registries Order 1968 and the District Probate Registries (Amendment) Order 1981 are hereby revoked.

SCHEDULE

Signed

Hailsham of St. Marylebone, C — Dated 25th February 1982

Explanatory note

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order restates, without change of substance, the scheme for the establishment of district probate registries as set out in Schedule 2 to the Supreme Court of Judicature (Consolidation) Act 1925 (c.49) as continued by paragraph 6 of Schedule 6 to the Supreme Court Act 1981. It also restates certain provisions relating to the establishment of district probate registries previously contained in the Non-Contentious Probate Rules 1954 (S.I. 1954/796).