1982 No. 379 (L.11)

SUPREME COURT OF ENGLAND AND WALESOFFICERS AND OFFICES

The District Probate Registries Order 1982

Made

Laid in Parliament

Coming into Operation

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

Hailsham of St. Marylebone, C

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

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order restates, without change of substance, the scheme for the establishment of district probate registries as set out in Schedule 2 to the Supreme Court of Judicature (Consolidation) Act 1925 (c.49) as continued by paragraph 6 of Schedule 6 to the Supreme Court Act 1981. It also restates certain provisions relating to the establishment of district probate registries previously contained in the Non-Contentious Probate Rules 1954 (S.I. 1954/796).