§ The Attorney-General (Sir Lionel Heald)I beg to move,
That the Draft Principal Probate Registry (Non-Contentious Business) (Canterbury Sub-Registry) Order, 1953, a copy of which was laid before this House on 14th April, be approved.This Order has already been scrutinised and passed by the Select Committee on Statutory Instruments, and a Resolution approving it was passed in another place last week. I do not think I should trouble the House with the technicalities beyond saying that under the provisions of the Supreme Court of Judicature Act, 1925, there was established a system of probate registries. During the war the Canterbury Sub-Registry was closed down owing to enemy air attacks and for other wartime reasons, and it is now considered that it would be to the public benefit that it should be re-opened. Therefore I ask the House to agree to this Order.
§ Question put, and agreed to.