{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/non-contentious-probate-amendment-rules-2025/rule-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/non-contentious-probate-amendment-rules-2025/rule-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/1004",
  "legislation_title": "The Non-Contentious Probate (Amendment) Rules 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/non-contentious-probate-amendment-rules-2025",
  "path": "rule/8",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Amendments to rule 44 (caveats)",
  "text": "In rule 44—\n(a) omit paragraph (2)(a) and the “or” immediately after that sub-paragraph;\n(b) in paragraph (6), at the end, insert “which must be accompanied by a statement in support of the directions sought”;\n(c) after paragraph (6) insert—\n“(6A) In disposing of any summons for directions under paragraph (6), where two or more persons are entitled to a grant of administration in the same degree, the district judge or registrar may apply the order of priority set out in rule 27(6A).”;\n(d) in paragraph (7)—\n(i) for “hearing” substitute “disposal”;\n(ii) for “above” substitute “, whether by hearing or otherwise,”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Rule 44 was amended by S.I. 1991/1876, 1998/1903, 2018/1137 and 2020/1059."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/1004/rule/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:11:46.151100+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."
}