{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/colonial-probates-act-1892/section-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/colonial-probates-act-1892/section-6.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/55-56/6",
  "legislation_title": "Colonial Probates Act 1892",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/colonial-probates-act-1892",
  "path": "section/6",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Definitions.",
  "text": "In this Act—\nThe expression “court of probate” means any court or authority, by whatever name designated, having jurisdiction in matters of probate, and in Scotland means the sheriff court of the county of Edinburgh:\nThe expression “probate” and “letters of administration” include confirmation in Scotland, and any instrument having in a British possession the same effect which under English law is given to probate and letters of administration respectively:\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\nThe expression “British court in a foreign country” means any British court having jurisdiction out of the Queen’s dominions in pursuance of an Order in Council, whether made under any Act or otherwise.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Definition repealed by Finance Act 1975 (c. 7, SIF 99:3), ss. 50, 52(2)(3), 59, Sch. 13 Pt. I"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/55-56/6/section/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:32:32.477383+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."
}