Probate and Administration Act · 1984 Revised Edition · Part II
11. Probate and Administration
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
The Probate Officer may, on motion or petition or otherwise, in a summary way, whether any action or other proceeding is or is not pending before the Probate
probate
"probate" and "letters of administration" include confirmation in Scotland, and any instrument hav-ing in any other part of the Commonwealth the same effect which under English law is given to probate and letters of administration respectively;
Officer with respect to any probate or administration, order any person to produce and bring before him, or otherwise as he may direct, any paper or writing being or purporting to be testamentary which may be shown to be in the possession or under the control of such person.
If it is not shown that any such paper or writing is in the possession or under the control of such person, but it appears that there are reasonable grounds for believing that he has knowledge of any such paper or writing, the Probate
Officer may direct such person to . .attend for the purpose of being examined by him or upon interrogatories respecting the same, and such person shall be bound to answer such questions or interrogatories, and, if so ordered, to produce and bring in such paper or writing, and shall be subject to the like process of contempt in case of default in not attend-ing or in not answering such questions or interrogatories, or not bring in such paper or writing, as he would have been subject to in case he had been a party to an action before the
Probate Officer and had made such default.
Terms defined in s 77
probate
Defined · s 77"probate" and "letters of administration" include confirmation in Scotland, and any instrument hav-ing in any other part of the Commonwealth the same effect which under English law is given to probate and letters of administration respectively;
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