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District Probate Registries Order 1982

As Enacted Cited authorities 5 Cited in Amendments 3 Related
Vincent
JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
CitationSI 1982/379
Year1982

1982 No. 379 (L. 11)

SUPREME COURT OF ENGLAND AND WALES

OFFICERS AND OFFICES

The District Probate Registries Order 1982

25thFebruary 1982

23rdMarch 1982

20thApril 1982

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the power conferred on him by section 104 of the Supreme Court Act 1981(a), 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(b) and the District Probate Registries (Amendment) Order 1981(c) are hereby revoked.

Hailsham of St. Marylebone, C.

Dated 25th February 1982.

(a) 1981 c. 54.

(b) S.I. 1968/1676.

(c) S.I. 1981/726.

SCHEDULE

 Column 1 Column 2
                 District Probate Registries Sub-registries
                Birmingham Stoke-on-Trent
                Brighton Maidstone
                Bristol Bodmin, Exeter
                Ipswich Norwich, Peterborough
                Leeds Lincoln, Sheffield
                Liverpool Chester, Lancaster
                Llandaff (Probate Registry of Wales) Bangor, Carmarthen, Gloucester
                Manchester Nottingham
                Newcastle-upon-Tyne Carlisle, Middlesbrough, York
                Oxford Leicester
                Winchester

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