{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/administration-of-estates-northern-ireland-order-1979/article-42",
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  "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/42",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "42",
  "heading": "Proceedings against estate of deceased person",
  "text": "Rules of court and, in relation to proceedings in a county court, county court rules may make provision—\n(a) for enabling proceedings to be commenced against the estate of a deceased person (whether by the appointment of a person to represent the estate or otherwise) where no grant has been made;\n(b) for enabling proceedings purporting to have been commenced against a person to be treated, if he was dead at their commencement, as having been commenced against his estate, whether or not a grant of probate or administration was made before their commencement; and\n(c) for enabling any proceedings commenced or treated as commenced against the estate of a deceased person to be maintained (whether by substitution of parties, amendment or otherwise) against a person appointed to represent the estate or, if a grant is or has been made, against the personal representatives.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1979/1575/article/42",
    "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."
}