{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/non-contentious-probate-rules-1987/rule-53",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/non-contentious-probate-rules-1987/rule-53.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/53",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "53",
  "heading": "Applications for leave to swear or give evidence as to death",
  "text": "An application for leave to swear or give evidence as to the death of a person in whose estate a grant is sought may be made to a district judge or registrar, and shall be supported by an affidavit or a witness statement setting out the grounds of the application and containing particulars of any policies of insurance effected on the life of the presumed deceased together with such further evidence as the district judge or registrar may require.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in rule 53 inserted (2.11.2020) by The Non-Contentious Probate (Amendment) Rules 2020 (S.I. 2020/1059), rules 1(1), 4(10)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in rule 53 inserted (14.10.1991) by The Non-Contentious Probate (Amendment) Rules 1991 (S.I. 1991/1876), rules 1(1), 7(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in rule 53 inserted (2.11.2020) by The Non-Contentious Probate (Amendment) Rules 2020 (S.I. 2020/1059), rules 1(1), 4(10)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Rule 53 heading substituted (2.11.2020) by The Non-Contentious Probate (Amendment) Rules 2020 (S.I. 2020/1059), rules 1(1), 4(10)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 53 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/53",
    "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."
}