# Administration of Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1933, Introduction: Introductory text


An Act to abolish grand juries and amend the law as to the presentment of indictments; to provide for the summary determination of questions as to liability for death duties; to make provision for alternative procedure for the recovery of Crown debts and to enable proceedings by the Crown to be instituted in county courts in appropriate cases; to amend the procedure as to certain prerogative writs and as to trials by jury in the High Court; to amend the law as to the payment of costs by and to the Crown; to provide for the further delegation of the jurisdiction of the Master in Lunacy; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.
[28th July 1933]

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/23-24/36/introduction (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/administration-of-justice-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1933/introduction
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