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NON-CONTENTIOUS PROBATE RULES 1967

Table of Provisions

  • 1 Citation and commencement  
  • 2 Interpretation  
  • 3 Application of Supreme Court Rules and prior practice  
  • 4 Jurisdiction of the Registrar  
  • 5 Appeal from the Registrar  
  • 6 Probate and administration generally  
  • 7 Personal applications  
  • 7A Postal applications  
  • 8 Affidavit of executor or administrator with the will annexed  
  • 9 Administrator’s affidavit  
  • 9A Orders to administer  
  • 9B Statement of assets and liabilities to be filed  
  • 10 Inquiries to be answered before grant issues  
  • 11 Grant in additional name  
  • 12 Marking of will  
  • 13 Invalid will to be produced  
  • 14 Address for service  
  • 15 Evidence as to due execution of will  
  • 16 Execution of will of blind or illiterate testator  
  • 17 Evidence as to terms, condition and date of execution of will  
  • 18 Attempted revocation of will  
  • 19 Affidavit as to due execution, terms, etc., of will  
  • 20 Will not proved under section 9 of Wills Act 1837  
  • 20A Additional requirements where Part X of the Wills Act 1970 is relevant  
  • 21 Privileged wills  
  • 22 Notice of application for administration  
  • 25 Grant to creditor  
  • 26 Grants on behalf of infants  
  • 27 Guarantee where administration applied for  
  • 27A Guarantee where application to reseal  
  • 28 Effect of renunciation  
  • 29 Citations generally  
  • 30 Citation to accept or refuse or to take a grant  
  • 31 Citation to propound a will  
  • 32 Citation to bring in a will  
  • 33 Caveats  
  • 34 Application for leave to swear to death  
  • 35 Amendment and revocation of grant  
  • 36 Taxation of costs  
  • 37 Executors and administrators to pass accounts  
  • 38 Form of grant, etc.  
  • 39 Requirements as to documents  
  • 42 Will to be engrossed in certain cases  
  • 43 Documents to be lodged with application to reseal  
  • 43A Searches  
  • 43B Legal costs for non‑contentious probate applications  
  • 44 Application to pending proceedings

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