Courts of Justice Act, 1936

Amendment of section 86 of the Probates and Letters of Administration Act (Ireland), 1857.

84.—(1) Section 86 of the Probates and Letters of Administration Act (Ireland), 1857, is hereby repealed and in lieu thereof it is hereby enacted as follows, that is to say:—

(a) every person (with the exceptions hereinafter mentioned) to whom any grant of administration shall be committed shall give a bond to the President of the High Court to inure for the benefit of the President of the High Court for the time being, and, if the Court or (in the case of a grant from the district registry) the district registrar shall so require, with one or more surety or sureties, conditioned for duly collecting, getting in, and administering the personal estate of the deceased and so much of the real estate of the deceased as shall by law devolve to and vest in his legal personal representative;

(b) the said bond shall be in such form as the President of the High Court shall, by any special or general order, direct;

(c) it shall not be necessary for the Chief State Solicitor or the Solicitor for the Attorney-General to give any such bond as aforesaid when applying for or obtaining administration to the use or benefit of the State.

(2) Paragraphs (a), (b), and (c) of the foregoing sub-section of this section shall be read as one with the Probates and Letters of Administration Act (Ireland), 1857, and shall be construed accordingly, and references in that Act or in rules of court to the bond required by section 86 of that Act shall be construed as references to the bond required by the said paragraph (a).