The Gazette 1913-14

the Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.

[APRIL, 1914

102

If exceeding five folios of 90 words, for every additional folio or part of a folio, 6d. \$rd March, 191-1.j

inspection of wills. The public can, on pay ment of search fees, see wills, records of grants of probate, and oaths of executors. The only notes they arc permitted to take are as follows :— Names and addresses of testator, executors, witnesses, and solicitors who took out the grant. Date of will and codicils and grant. Time and place of death. Registry where grant was taken out. Amount of property sworn to. Section 69 of the same Act provides that official copies of the whole or any part of a will may be obtained from the registries on payment of the prescribed fees. The pre scribed fees are set out in my Answer to Mr. Courthope's Question, which immediately follows the present Answer. I am not aware that the publication of the contents of wills which appears from time to time in the daily press is made in breach of the above pro visions ; but if the noble Lord has instances of such breach to bring before me I shall be glad to consider the matter further. [3rd March, 1914.] O. Mr. Courthope. —To ask Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will say under what authority and by what method are details of probates of wills supplied by the Probate Office to the press ; and what charges are made for the information supplied. [20th February, 1914.] A. Sir John Simon.— My Right honourable friend has asked me to reply to this Question. The press are granted no facilities other than those accorded to the public. Any person, on payment of a search fee, can see any will proved in England, or a copy of it, and on payment of a further fee can be supplied with a copy of it or an extract from it. Fees are payable as follows :— For every search for a will or grant of letters of administration or any other document filed in the Principal Registry, Is. For every office copy or extract of a will or of a grant of letters of administra tion or administration act or of any document filed in the Principal Registry, if five folios of 90 words or under, 2s. 6d.

The High Court of Justice in Ireland, KING'S BENCH DIVISION (!N BANKRUPTCY). Regulations as to Office Copies of Documents in the King's Bench Division (In Bank ruptcy] pursuant to General Order of the November, 1913. By a General Order made on the 24th November, 1913, by the Lord Chancellor, with the assent of the Lord Chief Baron, and approved of by . the Commissioners -of the Treasury on the 20th February, 1914, the fee prescribed by the Order of the 1st July, 1910, to be taken for Office Copies of Docu ments (in Bankruptcy) has been varied, and it is ordered that on and after the 1st April, 1914, the fee to be taken in respect of Office Copies of Documents in the King's Bench Division (in Bankruptcy) shall be, as follows :— For each folio of seventy-two words, or fractional part of a folio, 3d., and that such fee shall be taken in impressed stamps, to be impressed on such copies before delivery to the person requiring the same. For the purpose of carrying out the above Order the following arrangements for the issue of Office Copies have been made with the concurrence of the Commissioners of Inland Revenue :—The person requiring such copies shall fill up, sign, and lodge the requisition fjrm and block in the " Bespeak Book " in the General Office In Bankruptcy as hereto fore. When such copies are ready the Superintendent of Copyists will transmit them to the Stamp Office in the Four Courts, and at the same time notify the person requiring such copies of the amount of the fees payable in respect thereof. The person requiring such documents on presenting the notification at the Stamp Office, and paying the prescribed fee will receive the attested office copies at the Stamp Office, duly stamped. Such copies should be taken up without undue delay after such notification