{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/non-contentious-probate-rules-1987/schedule-THIRD",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/non-contentious-probate-rules-1987/schedule-THIRD.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/2024",
  "legislation_title": "The Non-Contentious Probate Rules 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/non-contentious-probate-rules-1987",
  "path": "schedule/THIRD",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": "THIRD",
  "heading": "EXCEPTIONS TO THE REQUIREMENT TO USE THE ONLINE PORTAL FOR APPLICATIONS FOR GRANTS MADE THROUGH SOLICITORS OR PROBATE PRACTITIONERS",
  "text": "Rule 4\nA grant of administration including a grant of administration with will annexed.\nA second grant of probate in respect of the same estate.\nA grant where the person entitled has been convicted of murder or manslaughter of the deceased or has otherwise forfeited the right to apply.\nA grant in respect of a foreign will.\nA grant accompanied by an application to prove a copy of the will.\nA grant, where all those entitled are deceased, to any of their legal personal representatives.\nA grant accompanied by an application for rectification or fiat copy of the will.\nA grant under rule 25 (Joinder of administrator).\nA grant under rule 27 (4) to (8) (Grants where two or more persons entitled in same degree).\nA grant under rule 30 (Grants where deceased died domiciled outside England and Wales), except a grant under rule 30(3)(b).\nA grant under rule 31 (Grants to attorneys).\n...\nA grant under rule 39 (Resealing under Colonial Probates Acts 1892 and 1927).\nA grant under rule 52 (Grants of administration under discretionary powers of court, and grants ad colligenda bona).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 inserted (2.11.2020) by The Non-Contentious Probate (Amendment) Rules 2020 (S.I. 2020/1059), rules 1(1), 3(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 3 inserted (3.11.2025) by The Non-Contentious Probate (Amendment) Rules 2025 (S.I. 2025/1004), rules 1(1), 11(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 3 omitted (3.11.2025) by virtue of The Non-Contentious Probate (Amendment) Rules 2025 (S.I. 2025/1004), rules 1(1), 11(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/2024/schedule/THIRD",
    "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."
}