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Statutory Instrument 1987 No. 2024 (L. 10)

The Non-Contentious Probate Rules 1987

(The document as of February, 2008)

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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

1987 No. 2024 (L. 10)

SUPREME COURT OF ENGLAND AND WALES

The Non-Contentious Probate Rules 1987

Made24th November 1987
Laid before Parliament10th December 1987
Coming into force1st January 1988


ARRANGEMENT OF RULES

1. Citation and commencement
2. Interpretation
3. Application of other rules
4. Applications for grants through solicitors
5. Personal applications
6. Duty of registrar on receiving application for grant
7. Grants by district probate registrars
8. Oath in support of grant
9. Grant in additional name
10. Marking of wills
11. Engrossments for purposes of record
12. Evidence as to due execution of will
13. Execution of will of blind or illiterate testator
14. Evidence as to terms, condition and date of execution of will
15. Attempted revocation of will
16. Affidavit as to due execution, terms, etc., of will
17. Wills proved otherwise than under section 9 of the Wills Act 1837
18. Wills of persons on military service and seamen
19. Evidence of foreign law
20. Order of priority for grant where deceased left a will
21. Grants to attesting witnesses, etc.
22. Order of priority for grant in case of intestacy
23. Order of priority for grant in pre-1926 cases
24. Right of assignee to a grant
25. Joinder of administrator
26. Additional personal representatives
27. Grants where two or more persons entitled in same degree
28. Exceptions to rules as to priority
29. Grants in respect of settled land
30. Grants where deceased died domiciled outside England and Wales
31. Grants to attorneys
32. Grants on behalf of minors
33. Grants where a minor is a co-executor
34. Renunciation of the right of a minor to a grant
35. Grants in case of mental incapacity
36. Grants to trust corporations and other corporate bodies
37. Renunciation of probate and administration
38. Notice to Crown of intended application for grant
39. Resealing under Colonial Probates Acts 1892 and 1927
40. Application for leave to sue on guarantee
41. Amendment and revocation of grant
42. Certificate of delivery of Inland Revenue affidavit
43. Standing searches
44. Caveats
45. Probate actions
46. Citations
47. Citation to accept or refuse or to take a grant
48. Citation to propound a will
49. Address for service
50. Application for order to attend for examination or for subpoena to bring in a will
51. Grants to part of an estate under section 113 of the Act
52. Grants of administration under discretionary powers of court, and grants ad colligenda bona
53. Applications for leave to swear to death
54. Grants in respect of nuncupative wills and copies of wills
55. Application for rectification of a will
56. Notice of election by surviving spouse to redeem life interest
57. Index of grant applications
58. Inspection of copies of original wills and other documents
59. Issue of copies of original wills and other documents
60. Taxation of costs
61. Power to require applications to be made by summons
62. Transfer of applications
63. Power to make orders for costs
64. Exercise of powers of judge during Long Vacation
65. Appeals from registrars
66. Service of summons
67. Notices, etc.
68. Application to pending proceedings
69. Revocation of previous rules

SCHEDULES

 First Schedule — Forms

 Second Schedule — Revocations

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