AN ACT OF THE 2289 PARLIAMENT OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND PASSED IN THE SESSION HELD IN THE 55TH YEAR OF THE REIGN OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN VICTORIA BEING THE SEVENTH SESSION OF THE TWENTY-FOURTH PARLIAMENT OF THE OTTAWA PRINTED BY SAMUEL EDWARD DAWSON LAW PRINTER (FOR CANADA) TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY 55 VICTORIA. CHAP. 6. An Act to provide for the Recognition in the United Kingdom of Probates and Letters of Administration granted in British Possessions. BE [20th May, 1892.] it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: 1. Her Majesty the Queen may, on being satisfied that the Application of legislature of any British possession has made adequate pro- Act by Order vision for the recognition in that possession of probates and letters of administration granted by the courts of the United Kingdom, direct by Order in Council that this Act shall, subject to any exceptions and modifications specified in the Order, apply to that possession, and thereupon, while the Order is in force, this Act shall apply accordingly. and letters of 2.-(1.) Where a court of probate in a British possession to Sealing in which this Act applies has granted probate or letters of admin- dom of coloistration in respect of the estate of a deceased person, the pro- nial probates bate or letters so granted may, on being produced to, and a administra copy thereof deposited with, a court of probate in the United tion. Kingdom, be sealed with the seal of that court, and, thereupon, shall be of the like force and effect, and have the same operation in the United Kingdom, as if granted by that court. (2.) Provided that the court shall, before sealing a probate or letters of administration under this section, be satisfied(a.) That probate duty has been paid in respect of so much (if any) of the estate as is liable to probate duty in the United Kingdom; and (b.) In the case of letters of administration that security has been given in a sum sufficient in amount to cover the property (if any) in the United Kingdom to which the letters of administration relate; and may require such evidence, if any, as it thinks fit as to the domicile of the deceased person. |