ADMINISTRATION AND PROBATE ACT 1919 - SECT 9

ADMINISTRATION AND PROBATE ACT 1919 - SECT 9

9—Certain Local Courts may be appointed district registries

        (1)         The Governor may, by proclamation, appoint the Local Courts of Moonta, Gladstone, Mount Gambier, and Port Augusta, or any of them, to be district registries or a district registry of the Court.

        (2)         The Governor may appoint a special magistrate to be district registrar of any district registry.

        (3)         Probate of a will or administration may, where the value of the estate does not exceed two thousand dollars, be granted in common form by a district registrar in the name of the Supreme Court and under the seal prescribed to be used in the district registry.

        (4)         The Governor may, by proclamation, define the districts for which the local courts mentioned in subsection (1) hereof shall respectively be the district registries.

        (5)         No probate or administration shall be granted by a district registrar unless it appears by the affidavit of one or more of the applicants therefor that the testator or intestate had at the time of his death a fixed place of abode, to be mentioned in the affidavit, within the district for which such district registrar is district registrar.

        (6)         Any district registrar shall refuse to grant probate or administration in any case in which it appears to him that the same ought not to be granted in common form.

        (7)         Probate or administration granted by a district registrar under this Act shall have the same effect as probate or administration granted by the Supreme Court, and shall equally therewith be subject to revocation by the Supreme Court.