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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/non-contentious-probate-amendment-rules-1991/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/non-contentious-probate-amendment-rules-1991/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/1876",
  "legislation_title": "The Non-Contentious Probate (Amendment) Rules 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/non-contentious-probate-amendment-rules-1991",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Rules)\nThese rules amend the Non-Contentious Probate Rules 1987, which regulate the conduct of non-contentious probate business in the High Court.\nThe purpose of the amendments is to–\n(a) make amendments consequential upon the Children Act 1989 (rules 2 to 5);\n(b) make amendments consequential upon section 74 of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (District judges) (rules 6 and 7);\n(c) make minor amendments to the procedure where two or more persons are entitled in the same degree to a grant of administration (rule 8);\n(d) to simplify the procedure for grants of administration in respect of settled land (rule 9);\n(e) to refer to the possibility of placing limitations on grants of administration where the deceased died domiciled outside England and Wales (rule 10);\n(f) to permit standing searches to be entered at District Probate Registries and sub-registries (rule 11);\n(g) to make minor amendments to the procedure for caveats (rule 12);\n(h) to make new provision for the taxation of costs (rule 13); and\n(i) to clarify the situation where a District Probate Registrar considers that the directions of a High Court Judge should be obtained (rule 14).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/1876/note",
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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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