Statutory Instruments
2020 No. 380 (L. 10)
Senior Courts Of England And Wales
The District Probate Registries (Amendment) Order 2020
Made
30th March 2020
Laid before Parliament
31st March 2020
Coming into force
22nd April 2020
Citation and Commencement
1. This Order may be cited as the District Probate Registries (Amendment) Order 2020 and comes into force on 22nd April 2020.
Amendments to the District Probate Registries Order 1982
2. —(1)The Schedule to the District Probate Registries Order 1982( 3 ) is amended as follows.
(2) In article 2(1), omit “column 1 of”
(3) Omit article 3.
(4) In article 4(1), omit “or of a district probate sub-registry”.
(5) In column 1 of the Schedule—
(a) omit the heading “Column 1”; and
(b) omit “Birmingham”.
(6) Omit column 2 of the Schedule.
Chris Philp
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State
Ministry of Justice
30th March 2020
1981 (c. 54) . Section 104(1) was amended by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4) , sections. 15 and Schedule 4, paragraphs 114 and 144. Section 59(5) of, and paragraph 1 of Part 1 of Schedule 11 to, the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 provided for the Supreme Court Act 1981 to be cited as the Senior Courts Act 1981.
Section 104(3) of the Senior Courts Act 1981 provides that the Lord Chief Justice may nominate another judicial office-holder to carry out the function specified in section 104(1) and the President of the Family Division has been so nominated.
S.I. 1982/379 , amended by S.I. 1994/1103 , S.I 1994/3079 and S.I. 2006/680 .