Rules

(1) Provisions may from time to time be made by rules of (a) for giving effect to any Act relating to administration of estates of deceased persons in respect of both real and personal property; (b) for regulating the practice and procedure in probate and administration matters, including both non- contentious and contentious business; or (c) for regulating the practice and procedure, including fees and costs, on, and incidental to, an application for sealing a probate or letters of administration granted by any Court in any part of the Commonwealth or Her Majesty’s dominions or a British Court of Probate in a foreign country as provided for by any law. (2) “Non-contentious business” includes the issue of grants of probate and letters of administration when there is no contention as to the right thereto, including the passing of probates and administration through the Court in contentious cases when the contest is terminated, and all business of a non- contentious nature taken in Court in matters of testacy and intestacy, not being proceedings in any action, and also the business of lodging caveats against the grant of probate or (3) “Contentious business” includes all other probate and administration business of the Court, except the warning of caveats and rules of court may further provide what shall be deemed “contentious business.” 96