
1 
This Order may be cited as the Hong Kong (Colonial Probates Act) Order 1997 and shall come into force on 1st July 1997.
2 
There shall be inserted after section 1 of the Colonial Probates Act 1892 (application of Act by Order in Council) the following provision:“
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This Act shall apply in relation to the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China as it applied, immediately before 1st July 1997, to Hong Kong; and the Colonial Probates Act Application Order 1965 shall, in relation to that Region, continue in force accordingly.”
3 
This Order extends to Northern Ireland.
N. H. Nicholls
Clerk of the Privy Council
