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the Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.
[APRIL, 1914
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.
If exceeding five folios of 90 words, for
every additional folio or part of a
folio, 6d.
\$rd March,
191-1.j
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