Hong Kong Ordinances

PROBATE AND ADMINISTRATION ORDINANCE - SECT 72

Probate rules and orders

PART VII

MISCELLANEOUS

(1) The Chief Justice may make rules and orders (in this Ordinance referred to
as probate rules and orders), for regulating the practice and procedure of the
court and the Registry with respect to non-contentious or 
common form probate business and generally for the better carrying out of the
provisions of this Ordinance.

(1A) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1), the Chief Justice
may make rules-

   (a)  regulating the payment or crediting of interest on any money placed in
        any account operated by the Official Administrator for the purpose of
        administering any estate;

   (b)  determining the smallest amount of money placed in such an account in
        respect of which interest is to be credited;

   (c)  determining the time at which money placed in such an account is to
        begin and to cease to bear interest and the mode of computing such
        interest; and

   (d)  determining the rate of interest to be credited to moneys placed in
        such an account. (Added 72 of 1978 s. 3)

(2) In all such business in respect of which no provision is made by probate
rules and orders, the practice and procedure for the time being in force in
the Probate Registry in England shall be deemed to be in force in the court
and the Registry. [cf. 1925 c. 49 s. 100 U.K.]