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Power to regulate procedure with respect to inquests of office. 2.(1) The Lord Chancellor may from time to time, with the assent of the Treasury, make rules for the procedure on and incidental to and consequential on the holding of...any inquests of office not otherwise regulated by law. (2) Such rules shall provide that an inquisition touching real estate shall find of whom the real estate was held, and that every inquisition shall be forthwith returned into the central office of the Supreme Court, and that every person aggrieved by any such inquisition shall be entitled to traverse the same, or to object thereto, in such manner as may be from time to time directed by rules of court. Subs.(3) rep. by 1961 c.55 s.9(4) sch.3 Pt.II (4) An inquisition shall not prejudice any rights which, at the time of the death of the person that led to the inquisition, were vested in some other person. (5) If the inquisition does not find of whom the real estate was held, any person aggrieved shall be entitled to obtain from the High Court an order for the taking of another inquisition. (6)... (7) All rules made under this section shall be laid before Parliament within three weeks after they are made, if Parliament is then sitting, and if Parliament is not then sitting, within three weeks after the beginning of the then next session of Parliament, and shall be judicially noticed, and shall have effect as if enacted by this Act.
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