Western Australian Current Regulations

NON-CONTENTIOUS PROBATE RULES 1967 - REG 3

3 .         Application of Supreme Court Rules and prior practice

        (1)         The Rules of the Supreme Court 1971 , and the general practice of the Court including the course of practice and procedure in Chambers apply, so far as may be practicable, to proceedings to which these rules relate, but only to the extent that the Act or these rules do not otherwise provide.

        (2)         Where no other provision is made, the practice and procedure heretofore in force shall continue to apply.

        (3)         All proceedings to which these rules relate shall be intituled “In the Supreme Court of Western Australia” “Probate Jurisdiction”.

        (4)         In addition to the requirements of Order 69 of the Rules of the Supreme Court 1971 , each document shall have endorsed on the back of the right hand half of the last page the name of the deceased and a short description of the document.

        [Rule 3 amended: Gazette 20 October 1972 p. 4159; 15 December 1989 p. 4520.]