Administration of Justice Act 1932
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1932 c. 55 |
| Year | 1932 |
Administration of Justice Act, 1932
(22 & 23 Geo. 5.) CHAPTER 55.
An Act to amend the law with respect to appeals from decisions of official referees, to amend in certain particulars the Supreme Court of Judicature (Consolidation) Act, 1925, and section thirty-eight of the Solicitors Act, 1932, and to make provision for the costs of applications under section eighty-four of the Law of Property Act, 1925.
[17th November 1932]
Be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
1 Appeals from decisions of official referees.
(1) As from the date on which this section comes into operation, the following provisions shall have effect with respect to appeals from decisions of official referees in causes, matters, questions and issues which have been ordered under section eighty-nine of the Supreme Court of Judicature (Consolidation) Act, 1925 (in this Act referred to as ‘the principal Act’), to be tried before an official referee:—
(a ) An appeal shall lie to the Court of Appeal from any decision of an official referee on a point of law:
(b ) Subject as aforesaid no decision of an official referee shall be called in question either by appeal or otherwise, and section ninety-four of the principal Act (which provides for the stating in the form of a special case of any question of law arising in the course of a reference) shall cease to have effect in relation to official referees.
(2) This section shall come into operation on such date as the Lord Chancellor may by order direct.
(3) Nothing in this section shall affect any appeal in respect of which notice of motion is served before the date on which this section comes into operation.
2 Power to grant probate or administration where no estate.
(1) Notwithstanding anything in section twenty or any other of the provisions of the principal Act, the High Court shall have jurisdiction to make a grant of probate or administration in respect of a deceased person notwithstanding that the deceased person left no estate.
(2) In subsection (2) of section one hundred and fifty-six of the principal Act (which relates to calendars of grants made in Probate Registries) the words ‘if any’ shall be added after...
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