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THE COLONIAL PROBATES ACT.

4. THE COLONIAL PROBATES ACT, 1892.

Order in Council, 15th March, 1893.

At the Court at Windsor, the 15th day of March, 1893.

PRESENT:

The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty.

WHEREAS by the first section of the Colonial Probates Act, 1892, it is enacted as follows:-

"Her Majesty the Queen may, on being satisfied that the Legislature of any British possession has made adequate provision 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 WHEREAS Her Majesty is satisfied that the Legislatures of the British Possessions hereinafter mentioned have made adequate provision for the recognition in those Possessions of Probates and Letters of Administration granted by the Courts of the United Kingdom;

Now, THEREFORE, Her Majesty, by virtue and in exercise of the powers by the above-recited Act in Her Majesty vested, is pleased by and with the advice of Her Most Honourable Privy Council to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:-

The Colonial Probates Act, 1892, shall apply to the British Possessions hereunder mentioned

Hongkong,

Western Australia, and

The Province of Ontario in the Dominion of Canada.

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ACT OF 1892–55 & 56 VICT. c. 6:-

any

An Act to provide for the recognition in the United Kingdom of Probates and Letters of Administration granted in British Possessions.

[20th May, 1892.]

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in that possession of probates and letters of administration granted by cil. 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.