{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/non-contentious-probate-rules-1987/rule-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/non-contentious-probate-rules-1987/rule-19.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/19",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Evidence of foreign law",
  "text": "Where evidence as to the law of any country or territory outside England and Wales is required on any application for a grant, the district judge or registrar may accept—\n(a) an affidavit or a witness statement from any person whom, having regard to the particulars of his knowledge or experience given in the affidavit or in the witness statement, he regards as suitably qualified to give expert evidence of the law in question; or\n(b) a certificate by, or an act before, a notary practising in the country or territory concerned.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in rule 19 inserted (14.10.1991) by The Non-Contentious Probate (Amendment) Rules 1991 (S.I. 1991/1876), rules 1(1), 7(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in rule 19 inserted (2.11.2020) by The Non-Contentious Probate (Amendment) Rules 2020 (S.I. 2020/1059), rules 1(1), 4(7)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in rule 19 inserted (2.11.2020) by The Non-Contentious Probate (Amendment) Rules 2020 (S.I. 2020/1059), rules 1(1), 4(7)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 19 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/19",
    "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."
}