PROBATE OF WILLS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 94, 18 October 1939, Page 7

PROBATE OF WILLS

REGULATIONS EXPLAINED

New requirements in connectioa with the granting of probate and letters of administration are contained in the Supreme Court Emergency Rules, which, are now in force. An explanation of these rules was given last evening by the Attorney-General (the Hon. H G. R. Mason), who said they were complementary to the Enemy Property Emergency Regulations which were recently issued. The Supreme Court Emergency Rules, said Mr. Mason, provided that' upon any application for a grant of probate or letters of administration there shall be filed affidavits stating whether or not the applicant is an alien enemy, and also whether the deceased person was not at the time of his'death an alien enemy within the meaning of the Enemy Property. Emergency Regulations. Mr. Mason explained that the regulations provided that, except, with the consent of the Attorney-General, no alien enemy, nor any person on his behalf, should be concerned in making any application to the Supreme Court for probate or letters of administration of the estate of a deceased person. It was also provided that no person should without the consent of the At-torney-General be concerned in any such application relating to the estate of a person who on his death was an alien enemy. The regulations prohibited, without the consent of the Attorney-General, the distribution of the estate of a deceased person to any beneficiary or creditor who was an alien enemy.