{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/administration-of-estates-northern-ireland-order-1979/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/administration-of-estates-northern-ireland-order-1979/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1979/1575",
  "legislation_title": "Administration of Estates (Northern Ireland) Order 1979",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/administration-of-estates-northern-ireland-order-1979",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Power of High Court to grant probate and letters of administration",
  "text": "(1) The High Court has power—\n(a) to grant probate of the will of a deceased person to one or more than one of his executors; and\n(b) to grant administration of the estate of a deceased person, or of any part of his estate, to such person as the High Court may determine in accordance with rules of court.\n(2) Paragraph (1) does not prejudice the discretion conferred on the High Court by Article 5 or the provisions of Article 10 relating to the grant of administration to a nominee of the Crown where an intestate's estate devolves on the Crown.\n(3) A grant may be limited in any way the High Court thinks fit.\n(4) The High Court has jurisdiction—\n(a) to make a grant in respect of a deceased person notwithstanding that he left no estate in Northern Ireland;\n(b) to make a de bonis non or other form of grant in respect of unadministered estate notwithstanding that there is no unadministered estate of the deceased person in Northern Ireland.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1979/1575/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:52:44.616098+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}