The District Probate Registries (Amendment) Order 2020

Made: 30th March 2020

Laid before Parliament: 31st March 2020

Coming into force: 22nd April 2020

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the power conferred on him by section 104(1) of the Senior Courts Act 1981[^f00001], having consulted the President of the Family Division as nominee of the Lord Chief Justice[^f00002], makes the following Order:

Citation and Commencement

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This Order may be cited as the District Probate Registries (Amendment) Order 2020 and comes into force on 22nd April 2020.

Amendments to the District Probate Registries Order 1982

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• (1) The Schedule to the District Probate Registries Order 1982[^f00003] is amended as follows.

• (2) In article 2(1), omit “column 1 of”

• (3) Omit article 3.

• (4) In article 4(1), omit “or of a district probate sub-registry”.

• (5) In column 1 of the Schedule—

• (a) omit the heading “Column 1”; and

• (b) omit “Birmingham”.

• (6) Omit column 2 of the Schedule.

Signed

Chris Philp — Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State — Ministry of Justice — 30th March 2020

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order amends the District Probate Registries Order 1982 (S.I.1982/379) (the “Order”) to revoke the Lord Chancellor’s direction that a probate registry be established at Birmingham and that sub-registries be established at the places listed in column 2 of the Schedule to the Order.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1981 (c. 54). Section 104(1) was amended by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), sections. 15 and Schedule 4, paragraphs 114 and 144. Section 59(5) of, and paragraph 1 of Part 1 of Schedule 11 to, the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 provided for the Supreme Court Act 1981 to be cited as the Senior Courts Act 1981.

[^f00002]: Section 104(3) of the Senior Courts Act 1981 provides that the Lord Chief Justice may nominate another judicial office-holder to carry out the function specified in section 104(1) and the President of the Family Division has been so nominated.

[^f00003]: S.I. 1982/379, amended by S.I. 1994/1103, S.I 1994/3079 and S.I. 2006/680.