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Administration of Justice Act 1982 (extracts)

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AuthorNasreen Pearce
Pages253-256

A2 Administration of Justice Act 1982 (extracts)

20 RECTIFICATION

(1) If a court is satisfied that a will is so expressed that it fails to carry out the testator’s intentions, in consequence—

(a) of a clerical error; or
(b) of a failure to understand his instructions,

it may order that the will shall be rectified so as to carry out his intentions.
(2) An application for an order under this section shall not, except with the permission of the court, be made after the end of the period of six months from the date on which representation with respect to the estate of the deceased is first taken out.

(3) The provisions of this section shall not render the personal representatives of a deceased person liable for having distributed any part of the estate of the deceased, after the end of the period of six months from the date on which representation with respect to the estate of the deceased is first taken out, on the ground that they ought to have taken into account the possibility that the court might permit the making of an application for an order under this section after the end of that period; but this subsection shall not prejudice any power to recover, by reason of the making of an order under this section, any part of the estate so distributed.

(4) The following are to be left out of account when considering for the purposes of this section when representation with respect to the estate of a deceased person was first taken out—

(a) a grant limited to settled land or to trust property,
(b) any other grant that does not permit any of the estate to be distributed,
(c) a grant limited to real estate or to personal estate, unless a grant limited to the remainder of the estate has previously been made or is made at the same time,

(d) a grant, or its equivalent, made outside the United Kingdom (but see subsection
(5)).

(5) A grant sealed under section 2 of the Colonial Probates Act 1892 counts as a grant made in the United Kingdom for the purposes of subsection (4), but is to be taken as dated on the date of sealing.

254 A Practitioner’s Guide to Probate Disputes

AMENDMENTS

Section 20(4)(5) substituted for s 20(4) by the Inheritance and Trustees’ Powers Act 2014, s 12(2), Sch 3, para 3 (with s 12(4)); the Inheritance and Trustees’ Powers Act 2014 (Commencement) Order 2014, SI 2014/2039, art 2.

SCHEDULE 2

THE ANNEX TO THE CONVENTION ON INTERNATIONAL WILLS

UNIFORM LAW ON THE FORM OF AN INTERNATIONAL WILL

ARTICLE 1

1. A will shall be valid as regards form...

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