{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/non-contentious-probate-amendment-rules-1998/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/non-contentious-probate-amendment-rules-1998/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/1903",
  "legislation_title": "The Non-Contentious Probate (Amendment) Rules 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/non-contentious-probate-amendment-rules-1998",
  "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 as follows—\n(a) rules 2(a), 3, 4, 6, 16, 17(a) and 18 provide that probate practitioners may act for applicants as well as solicitors; persons falling into the category of probate practitioners as defined in these Rules, may be found listed in section 23(2) of the Solicitors Act 1974;\n(b) rules 5, 7, 9 and 15 provide for minor changes and corrections to the 1987 Rules;\n(c) rule 8 provides for all persons having parental responsibility for a minor to have an equal right in respect of a grant on behalf of a minor;\n(d) rule 10 provides for any two partners to renounce probate or administration on behalf of the other members of a partnership;\n(e) rules 11, 13, 17(b) and 17(c) provide for amendments as a result of the computerisation of the index of caveats and summonses;\n(f) rule 12 widens the persons to whom notice must be given of an application for the rectification of a will, where they might be prejudiced by it; and\n(g) rules 2(b) and 14 provide for the exercise of a registrar’s jurisdiction by another registrar in certain circumstances.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1903/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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