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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/district-probate-registries-order-1982/article-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1982/379",
  "legislation_title": "The District Probate Registries Order 1982",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/district-probate-registries-order-1982",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Every district probate registrar shall arrange for an officer of a district probate registry or of a district probate sub-registry to attend, for the purpose of personal applications for a grant of probate or administration, at such places and such times as may be specified by the Lord Chancellor, and any such place may be styled a probate office.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [
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      "type": "art. 4 renumbered as art. 4(1)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2006/680",
      "affecting_title": "The Lord Chancellor (Transfer of Functions and Supplementary Provisions) Order 2006"
    },
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      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2006/680",
      "affecting_title": "The Lord Chancellor (Transfer of Functions and Supplementary Provisions) Order 2006"
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      "affecting": "uksi/2006/680",
      "affecting_title": "The Lord Chancellor (Transfer of Functions and Supplementary Provisions) Order 2006"
    },
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2020/380",
      "affecting_title": "The District Probate Registries (Amendment) Order 2020"
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  },
  "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."
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