The Public Trustee (Amendment) Rules 1983

• Citation: S.I. 1983/1050
• Sections: 2

Section 1

These Rules may be cited as the Public Trustee (Amendment) Rules 1983 and shall come into operation on 15th August 1983.

Section 2

The Public Trustee Rules 1912 shall be amended as follows:—

(1) In rule 15—

(a) the words “in manner hereinafter provided and” shall be omitted from paragraph (1).

(b) The following shall be substituted for paragraphs (2) and (3):—

(2) Any such question shall be submitted—

(a) to such Judge of the Chancery Division as the Vice-Chancellor may specify; and

(b) in such manner as that judge may direct.

(2) In rule 22, after the word “cheque” where it first appears, the words “on the Bank of England bearing a signature or a facsimile signature of an officer of the Public Trustee authorised in writing by him to act in that behalf or a cheque” shall be inserted.