{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/non-contentious-probate-rules-1987/rule-66",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/non-contentious-probate-rules-1987/rule-66.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/66",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "66",
  "heading": "Service of summons",
  "text": "(1) A judge or district judge or, where the application is to be made to a district probate registrar, that registrar, may direct that a summons for the service of which no other provision is made by these Rules shall be served on such person or persons as the judge, district judge or registrar may direct.\n(2) Where by these Rules or by any direction given under the last foregoing paragraph a summons is required to be served on any person, it shall be served not less than two clear days before the day appointed for the hearing, unless a judge or district judge or registrar at or before the hearing dispenses with service on such terms, if any, as he may think fit.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in rule 66(1) substituted (14.10.1991) by The Non-Contentious Probate (Amendment) Rules 1991 (S.I. 1991/1876), rules 1(1), 7(3)(7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in rule 66(1) substituted (14.9.1998) by The Non-Contentious Probate (Amendment) Rules 1998 (S.I. 1998/1903), rules 1(1), 15"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in rule 66(1) substituted (14.10.1991) by The Non-Contentious Probate (Amendment) Rules 1991 (S.I. 1991/1876), rules 1(1), 7(7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in rule 66(2) inserted (14.10.1991) by The Non-Contentious Probate (Amendment) Rules 1991 (S.I. 1991/1876), rules 1(1), 7(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 66 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/66",
    "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."
}