No. 44/1930:

DISTRICT PROBATE REGISTRY, TUAM (CLOSING) ORDER.

DISTRICT PROBATE REGISTRY, TUAM (CLOSING) ORDER.

I, JAMES FITZGERALD-KENNEY, Minister for Justice, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by Section 56 of the Court Officers Act, 1926 (No. 27 of 1926) and of every and any other power me in this behalf enabling do hereby order as follows, that is to say:—

1. The District Probate Registry at Tuam is hereby closed.

2. Applications for probates of wills and letters of administration in cases in which the testator or intestate (as the case may be) at the time of his death had a fixed place of abode in County Galway may be lodged with the County Registrar for County Galway and the like applications, in cases in which the testator or intestate (as the case may be) had a fixed place of abode in County Roscommon may be lodged with the County Registrar for County Roscommon. The County Registrar with whom such applications are lodged shall transmit such applications to the Principal Probate Registry and the relative probates or letters of administration if and when issued by the Principal Probate Registry shall be transmitted from the Principal Probate Registry to the County Registrar for delivery to the person entitled thereto.

3. This Order may be cited for all purposes as the District Probate Registry, Tuam (Closing) Order, 1930, and shall come into operation on this fourteenth day of May, 1930.

Given under my Seal of Office this 14th day of May 1930.

(Signed) JAMES FITZGERALD-KENNEY,

Minister for Justice.