{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/district-probate-registries-amendment-order-2020/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/district-probate-registries-amendment-order-2020/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2020/380",
  "legislation_title": "The District Probate Registries (Amendment) Order 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/district-probate-registries-amendment-order-2020",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Senior Courts Of England And Wales\nMade 30th March 2020\nLaid before Parliament 31st March 2020\nComing into force 22nd April 2020\nThe Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the power conferred on him by section 104(1) of the Senior Courts Act 1981, having consulted the President of the Family Division as nominee of the Lord Chief Justice, makes the following Order:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1981 (c. 54). Section 104(1) was amended by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), sections. 15 and Schedule 4, paragraphs 114 and 144. Section 59(5) of, and paragraph 1 of Part 1 of Schedule 11 to, the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 provided for the Supreme Court Act 1981 to be cited as the Senior Courts Act 1981."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 104(3) of the Senior Courts Act 1981 provides that the Lord Chief Justice may nominate another judicial office-holder to carry out the function specified in section 104(1) and the President of the Family Division has been so nominated."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/380/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:31:32.167088+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."
}