(2) A copy of every such will and of the probate or administration, shall be preserved in a book kept for the
purpose in the Registry.
30. (1) No original will shall be delivered out for any purpose without the direction in writing of the Court where
the will is filed.
(2) A certified transcript, under the seal of the Court of the probate or administration with the will annexed may
be obtained from the Court.
Probate or Administration with will annexed
31. (1) On receiving an application for probate or for administration with will annexed, the Court shall inspect
the will and see whether it appears to be signed by the testator or by some other person in his presence and by his
direction and to be subscribed by two witnesses according to the enactments relative thereto and shall not
proceed further if the will does not appear to be so signed and subscribed.
(2) If the will appears to be so signed and subscribed, the Court shall then refer to the attestation clause (if any)
and consider whether the wording thereof states the will to have been, in fact, executed in accordance with those
enactments.
32. (1) If there is no attestation clause, or if the attestation clause is insufficient, the Court shall require an
affidavit from at least one of the subscribing witnesses, if either of them is living, to prove that the will was, in
fact, executed in accordance with those enactments.
(2) The affidavit shall be engrossed and form part of the probate, so that the probate may he a complete
document on the face of it.
33. Will, on perusal of the affidavit it appears, that the will was not in fact, executed in accordance with those
enactments, the Court shall refuse probate.
34. If both the subscribing witnesses are dead or if from other circumstances such an affidavit cannot be obtained
from either of them resort to such an affidavit shall be had to other persons (if any) present at the execution of
the will but if no such affidavit can be obtained, proof shall he required of that fact and of the handwriting of the
deceased and of the subscribing witnesses and also of any circumstances raising a presumption in favour of the
due execution of the will.
35. Where the testator was blind or illiterate, the Court shall not grant probate of the will, or administration with
the will annexed, unless the Court is first satisfied, by proof or by what appears on the face of the will, that the
will was read over to the deceased before its execution or that he had at that time knowledge of its contents.
36. (1) The Court, on being satisfied that the will was duly executed, shall carefully inspect it to see whether
there are any interlineations or alterations or erasures or obliterations appearing in it and requiring to be
accounted for.
(2) Interlineations, alterations, erasures and obliterations shall be invalid unless they existed in the will at the
time of its execution or unless, if made afterwards, they have been executed and attested in the mode required by
the said enactments or unless they have been made valid by the re-execution of the will, or by the subsequent
execution of some codicil thereto.
(3) Where interlineations, alterations, erasures, or obliterations appear in the will (unless duly executed or recited
in or otherwise identified by the attestation clause), an affidavit in proof of their having existed in the will before
its execution shall be filed.
(4) If no satisfactory evidence is adduced respecting the time when an erasure or obliteration was made and the
words erased or obliterated are not entirely effaced, and can, on inspection of the will, be ascertained, they shall
form part of the probate.
(5) Where any words have been erased which might have been of importance, an affidavit shall be required.