The District Probate Registries (Amendment) Order 2020
Year | 2020 |
2020 No. 380 (L. 10)
Senior Courts Of England And Wales
The District Probate Registries (Amendment) Order 2020
Made 30th March 2020
Laid before Parliament 31th March 2020
Coming into force 22th April 2020
The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the power conferred on him by section 104(1) of the Senior Courts Act 19811, having consulted the President of the Family Division as nominee of the Lord Chief Justice2, makes the following Order:
Citation and Commencement
1. 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
2.—(1) The Schedule to the District Probate Registries Order 19823is 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)
(a) omit the heading “Column 1”; and
(b)
(b) omit “Birmingham”.
(6) Omit column 2 of the Schedule.
Chris Philp
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State
Ministry of Justice
30th March 2020
EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Order)
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.
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