{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/non-contentious-probate-rules-1987/rule-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/non-contentious-probate-rules-1987/rule-10.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/2024",
  "legislation_title": "The Non-Contentious Probate Rules 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/non-contentious-probate-rules-1987",
  "path": "rule/10",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Exhibition of wills",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2) below, every will in respect of which an application for a grant is made—\n(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(b) shall be exhibited to any affidavit or witness statement which may be required under these Rules as to the validity, terms, condition or date of execution of the will.\n(2) The district judge or registrar may allow a facsimile copy of a will to be ... exhibited in lieu of the original document.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Rule 10(1)(a) omitted (27.11.2018) by virtue of The Non-Contentious Probate (Amendment) Rules 2018 (S.I. 2018/1137), rules 1(1), 10(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in rule 10(1)(b) inserted (2.11.2020) by The Non-Contentious Probate (Amendment) Rules 2020 (S.I. 2020/1059), rules 1(1), 4(5)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in rule 10(2) inserted (14.10.1991) by The Non-Contentious Probate (Amendment) Rules 1991 (S.I. 1991/1876), rules 1(1), 7(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in rule 10(2) omitted (27.11.2018) by virtue of The Non-Contentious Probate (Amendment) Rules 2018 (S.I. 2018/1137), rules 1(1), 10(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Rule 10 heading substituted (27.11.2018) by The Non-Contentious Probate (Amendment) Rules 2018 (S.I. 2018/1137), rules 1(1), 10(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 10 in force at 1.1.1988, see rule 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/2024/rule/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:17:08.535192+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."
}