Probate Duties (Scotland and Ireland) Act, 1888

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Regulations as to payment of sums.

4.—(1) The sums paid or distributed under this Act in Ireland shall be paid and distributed in such manner and in accordance with such regulations as . . . . the Lord Lieutenant . . . . from time to time make.

(2) Where any proportion or amount is to be certified, or where any question arises as to what costs, salaries, remuneration, allowances, or officers are to be included in ascertaining such proportion or amount, the proportion or amount shall be ascertained and the question determined in such manner as is for the time being directed by the regulations made under this section.

(3) Where . . . . the Local Government Board for Ireland give a certificate for the purposes of this Act or the regulations made thereunder, he or they may, if it seem proper, vary such certificate; but unless it is so varied, the certificate shall be conclusive.

(4) Every authority to whom a sum is payable under this Act shall submit their claim to the payment in such manner to such person or board, and produce such evidence, and comply with such rules as is for the time being required by regulations under this section.