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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/administration-of-justice-act-1970/schedule-2/paragraph-6",
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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/6",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In the following provisions of the Supreme Court of Judicature (Consolidation) Act 1925, for the words “Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division” or “Probate Division”, in each place where they occur, substitute the words “Family Division”:—\nsection 2 (constitution of High Court), subsection (1) ;\nsection 3 (qualification to sit as judge), subsection (1) ;\nsection 4 (divisions of High Court), subsections (1)(iii) and (2) ;\nsection 6 (constitution of Court of Appeal), subsection (2) ;\nsection 9 (qualification of judges), subsection (3) ;\nsection 16 (precedence of judges), subsections (2) and (2a) ;\nsection 70 (commissioners of assize), subsections (3) and (5) ;\nsection 99 (rules of court), subsections (4) and (6) ;\nsection 100 (rules about non-contentious probate business), subsection (1) ;\nsection 108 (district probate registries), subsections (2), (3) and (5) ;\nsection 109 (clerks of district probate registries), subsections (1) and (2) ;\nsection 113 (power to abolish offices) ;\nsection 115 (tenure of officers of Supreme Court), subsection (3) ;\nsection 116 (appointment of deputies for court officers), subsection (4) ;\nsection 128A (district probate registrar), subsections (2) and (3)\nsection 152 (duties of district probate registrars), subsection (2), (3), (5) and (6) ;\nsection 156 (calendars of grants), subsection (2) ;\nsection 157 (copies of will to be delivered to Revenue) ;\nsection 172 (depositories of wills of living persons) ;\nsection 174 (seals for use in probate registries), subsection (1) ;\nsection 220 (documents filed in, or in custody of, central office), subsection (3) ;\nSchedule 2 (district probate registries), paragraph 2 ;\nSchedule 3, Part I (officers to whom special provisions as to appointment, retirement and pension apply).",
  "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      "text": "S. 34(1), Sch. 2 paras. 6–9, 11–15, 18, 20 repealed (E.W.) by Supreme Court Act 1981 (c. 54, SIF 37), s. 152(4), Sch. 7"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1970/31/schedule/2/paragraph/6",
    "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."
}