{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/administration-of-justice-act-1970/schedule-2/paragraph-12",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1970/31",
  "legislation_title": "Administration of Justice Act 1970",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/administration-of-justice-act-1970",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/12",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In the following provisions of the said Act of 1925, for the words “the principal probate registry”, in each place where they occur, substitute the words “the principal registry of the Family Division”:—\nsection 126 (qualification for appointment to certain offices), subsection (3) ;\nsection 150 (application for grants) ;\nsection 151 (grants in district probate registries), subsection (3) ;\nsection 152 (duties of district probate registrars), subsections (1), (2), (3), (4) and (5) ;\nsection 154 (caveats), subsections (1) and (2) ;\nsection 156 (records of grants), subsection (1) ;\nsection 168 (resealing of Scottish confirmations), subsections (1), (2) and (3) ;\nsection 169 (resealing of Northern Irish grants), subsections (1), (2) and (3) ;\nsection 170 (deposit of wills, etc.) ;\nsection 171 (official copies of wills), paragraphs (b) and (c) ;\nsection 174 (seals for use in probate registries), subsection (1).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 34(1), Sch. 2 paras. 6–9, 11–15, 18, 20 repealed (E.W.) by Supreme Court Act 1981 (c. 54, SIF 37), s. 152(4), Sch. 7"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1970/31/schedule/2/paragraph/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:51:09.937865+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."
}