Hong Kong Regulations

NON-CONTENTIOUS PROBATE RULES

- CHAPTER 10A

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   1.      Citation
   2.      Interpretation
   2A.     Forms
   3.      Applications for grants through solicitors
   4.      Personal applications
   5.      Duty of Registrar on receiving application for grant
   6.      Oath in support of grant
   7.      Grant in additional name
   8.      Marking of wills
   9.      Engrossments for purposes of record
   10.     Evidence as to due execution of will
   11.     Execution of will of blind or illiterate testator
   12.     Evidence as to terms, condition and date of execution of will
   13.     Attempted revocation of will
   14.     Affidavit as to due execution, terms, etc. of will
   16.     Wills of persons on military service and seamen
   18.     Evidence of foreign law
   19.     Order of priority for grant where deceased left a will
   20.     Grants to attesting witnesses etc.
   21.     Order of priority for grant in case of intestacy
   22.     Right of assignee to a grant
   23.     Joinder of administrator
   24.     Additional personal representatives
   25.     Grants where two or more persons entitled in same degree
   26.     Exceptions to rules as to priority
   27.     Grants to persons having spes successionis
   29.     Grants where deceased died outside Hong Kong
   30.     Grants to attorneys
   31.     Grant on behalf of person under 21
   32.     Grant where person under 21 co-executor
   33.     Grants in case of mental or physical incapacity
   34.     Grants to trust corporations and other corporate bodies
   35.     Renunciation of probate and administration
   37.     Notice to Government of intended application for grant
   38.     Guarantee
   41.     Sureties on resealing
   41A.    Application for leave to sue on guarantee
   43.     Application for grant to be supported by documents required under
           the Estate Duty Ordinance
   44.     Caveats
   45.     Citations
   46.     Citation to accept or refuse or to take a grant
   47.     Citation to propound a will
   48.     Address for service
   49.     Application for order to bring in a will or to attend for
           examination
   51.     Grants of administration under discretionary powers of court, and
           grants ad colligenda bona
   52.     Applications for leave to swear to death
   53.     Grants in respect of nuncupative wills and of copies of wills
   54.     Grants durante absentia
   58.     Issue of copies of original wills and other documents
   59.     Taxation of costs
   60.     Power to require application to be made by summons or motion
   60A.    Time limit for claims
   62.     Appeals from Registrar
   63.     Service of notice of motion and summons
   64.     Notices etc.
   65.     Affidavits
   66.     Time
   67.     Application to pending proceedings
           SCHEDULE


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