THE COLONIAL PROBATES ACT.
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4.-(1) Every Order in Council made under this Act shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament as soon as may be after it is made, and Council.
Order in Council shall be published under the authority of Her Majesty's Stationery Office.
(2) Her Majesty the Queen in Council may revoke or alter any Order in Council previously made under this Act.
(3) Where it appears to Her Majesty in Council that the Legislature of part of a British possession has power to make the provision requisite for bringing this Act into operation in that part, it shall be lawful for Her Majesty to direct by Order in Council that this Act shall apply to that part as if it were a separate British possession, and thereupon, while the Order is in force, this Act shall apply accordingly.
5. This Act when applied by an Order in Council to a British possession shall, subject to the provisions of the Order, apply to probates and letters of administration granted in that possession either before or after the passing of this Act.
6. In this Act-
the expression "Court of Probate" means any Court or authority, by whatever name designated, having jurisdiction in matters of probate, and in Scotland means the Sheriff Court of the County of Edinburgh:
the expressions "probate" and "letters of administration" include confirmation in Scotland, and any instrument having in a British possession the same effect which under English law is given to probate and letters of administration respectively:
the expression "probate duty" includes any duty payable on the value of the estate and effects for which probate or letters of administration is or are granted:
the expression "British Court in a foreign country" means any British Court having jurisdiction out of the Queen's Dominions in pursuance of an Order in Council, whether made under any Act or otherwise.
7. This Act may be cited as the Colonial Probates Act, 1892.
5.—THE FINANCE ACT, 1894, s. 20.
Order in Council, 11th May, 1895.
At the Court at Windsor, the 11th day of May, 1895.
PRESENT:
The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty.
WHEREAS by the Twentieth Section of "The Finance Act, 1894," it is enacted that Her Majesty the Queen may, by Order in Council apply granted,
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