1971 Ed.]
Probate and Administration.
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"Registry" means the Probate Registry of the court; "representation" means the probate of a will and administration, and the expression "taking out representation" refers to the obtaining of the probate of a will or of the grant of administration;
"trust corporation" means-
(a) the Public Trustee in England;
(b) a corporation appointed by the court in any particular case to be a trustee (if authorized by its constitution to act as trustee); and
(c) any trust company registered under Part VIII of the Trustee Ordinance;
"will" includes any testamentary instrument of which probate may be granted.
1925 c. 23, s. 55.
(Cap. 29.)
1925 c. 49, s. 157(1).
PART I.
JURISDICTION AND POWERS OF THE COURT.
3. (1) The court shall have jurisdiction in all matters relating to probate and administration of deceaseds' estates, with power to grant probates of wills and letters of administration to the estates of deceased persons and to alter or revoke such grants.
(2) The court shall have jurisdiction to make a grant of probate or administration in respect of a deceased person notwithstanding that the deceased person left no estate.
(3) The court shall have jurisdiction to reseal grants of probate and letters of administration made by a court of probate in any part of the Commonwealth or by a British court having jurisdiction outside the Commonwealth in pursuance of an Order in Council (whether made under any Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom or otherwise) in accordance with the provisions of Part IV of this Ordinance.
4. All probates, letters of administration, orders and other instruments, and copies thereof and all exemplifications and copies thereof, shall be sealed with the seal of the court; and any such document purporting to be so sealed shall be received in evidence in any proceedings without further proof thereof.
5. (1) Subject to section 6, a grant of probate or administration may be made, amended or resealed by the Registrar in the name and under the seal of the court.
(2) The Registrar may, in any case in which he has jurisdiction under this section, exercise all such powers as are ancillary thereto which the court or a judge may exercise in like circumstances.
Jurisdiction of the court in probate and administration.
1932 c. 55, s. 2.
Sealing of documents.
1925 c. 49, s. 174(2).
Registrar may exercise jurisdiction in certain cases.