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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/non-contentious-probate-amendment-rules-1998/rule-1",
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  "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": "rule/1",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Rules may be cited as the Non-Contentious Probate (Amendment) Rules 1998 and shall come into force on 14th September 1998.\n(2) In these Rules, unless the context otherwise requires, a rule referred to by number alone means the rule so numbered in the Non-Contentious Probate Rules 1987 and a reference to any form by number alone means the form so numbered in the First Schedule to those Rules.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1987/2024, as amended by S.I. 1991/1876."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1903/rule/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:23:54.885158+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."
}