The Non-Contentious Probate (Amendment) Rules 1991

Amendments consequential upon section 74 of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (District judges)(1)

7.—(1) In the following provisions before the word “registrar”, whereever it appears, there shall be inserted the words “district judge or”:

• rule 2(2);

• rule 5(3)(c), (4), (5) and (7);

• rule 6(1) and (2) and the heading to that rule;

• rule 8(1) and (2);

• rule 10(2);

• rule 11(1);

• rule 12(1), (2) and (3);

• rule 13;

• rule 14(1), (2), (3) and (4);

• rule 16;

• rule 17(2);

• rules 18 and 19;

• rule 20(c) and (e);

• rule 25(2) and (3);

• rule 26(1) and (2);

• rule 27(3), (5), (6) and (8);

• rule 30(1)(b) and (c) and (2);

• rule 31(1) and (2);

• rule 32(1) and (3);

• rule 34(2);

• rule 35(1), (2), (3) and (4);

• rule 36(3);

• rule 37(2) and (3);

• rule 38;

• rule 39(3), (4) or (6);

• rule 40;

• rule 41(1);

• rule 44(1), (4), and (7);

• rule 46(1), (2), (4) and (5);

• rule 47(4), (5) and (7);

• rule 48(2);

• rule 50(1) and (2);

• rules 51, 52, 53, 54 and 55;

• rules 58 and 59;

• rules 61 and 62;

• rules 65 and 66(2); and

• rules 67 and 68.

(2) In rules 7 and 63, the words “district probate”, wherever they occur, shall be omitted.

(3) In rules 7(1) and (3), 37(4), 44(13) and (14), 45(3), 46(3), 60, 64 and 66(1), for the words “registrar of the Principal Registry” there shall be substituted the words “district judge”.

(4) In rules 36(2), 45(1) and (2), 56(1), and 57(1) and in Form 6 in the First Schedule, for the words “Senior Registrar” there shall be substituted the words “senior district judge”.

(5) In rules 15 and 36(4)(b), before the word “registrar's” there shall be inserted the words “district judge’s or”.

(6) In the heading to rule 65, before the word “registrars” there shall be inserted the words “district judges or”.

(7) In Rule 66(1), for the words “registrar of the Principal Registry” there shall be substituted the words “district judge” and for the words “or registrar may direct” there shall be substituted the words “or district judge may direct”.

(8) In Form 4 in the First Schedule for the words “directions by a registrar of the Principal Registry or” there shall be substituted the words “directions by a district judge of the Principal Registry or a registrar of”.

(1)

1990 c. 41.