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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-amendment-no-2-rules-2001/schedule/paragraph-57.1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2001/1388",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-amendment-no-2-rules-2001",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/57.1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "57.1",
  "heading": "Scope of this Part and definitions",
  "text": "(1) This Part contains rules about—\n(a) probate claims;\n(b) claims for the rectification of wills; and\n(c) claims and applications to—\n(i) substitute another person for a personal representative; or\n(ii) remove a personal representative.\n(2) In this Part:\n(a) “probate claim” means a claim for—\n(i) the grant of probate of the will, or letters of administration of the estate, of a deceased person;\n(ii) the revocation of such a grant; or\n(iii) a decree pronouncing for or against the validity of an alleged will;\nnot being a claim which is non-contentious (or common form) probate business;\n(Section 128 of the Supreme Court Act 1981 defines non-contentious (or common form) probate business.)\n(b) “relevant office” means—\n(i) in the case of High Court proceedings in a Chancery district registry, that registry;\n(ii) in the case of any other High Court proceedings, Chancery Chambers at the Royal Courts of Justice, Strand, London, WC2A 2LL; and\n(iii) in the case of county court proceedings, the office of the county court in question;\n(c) “testamentary document” means a will, a draft of a will, written instructions for a will made by or at the request of, or under the instructions of, the testator, and any document purporting to be evidence of the contents, or to be a copy, of a will which is alleged to have been lost or destroyed;\n(d) “will” includes a codicil.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1981 c. 54."
    }
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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