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Confirmation and Probate Amendment Act 1859

1859 CHAPTER 30 22 Vict

An Act to amend the Confirmation and Probate Act, 1858.

[19th April 1859]

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1Words of enactment repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1892 (c. 19)

C2This Act is not necessarily in the form in which it has effect in Northern Ireland

1 Persons, &c. making payments upon confirmations and probates under Act, 1858, to be indemnified.U.K.

All persons and corporations who, in reliance upon any instrument purporting to be a confirmation granted under the M1Confirmation and Probate Act, 1858, and all persons and corporations who, in reliance upon [F1any instrument purporting to be a probate or letters of administration issued by any court in England and Wales or Northern Ireland and noting the domicile of the deceased as being in England and Wales or in Northern Ireland, as the case may be] shall have made or permitted to be made, or shall make or permit to be made, any payment or transfer bona fide upon any such confirmation, probate, or letters of administration, shall be indemnified and protected in so doing, notwithstanding any defect or circumstance whatsoever affecting the validity of such confirmation, probate, or letters of administration.

Textual Amendments

F1Words substituted by Administration of Estates Act 1971 (c. 25.), Sch. 1 para. 1

Marginal Citations

2 Short title.U.K.

This Act may be cited as the “Confirmation and Probate Amendment Act, 1859.