147Order to produce an instrument purporting to be testamentary

147 Order to produce an instrument purporting to be testamentary (1) The Court may, whether any proceeding is or is not pending in the Court with respect to any probate or administration, order any person to produce and bring into the office of the Registrar any paper or writing, being or purporting to be testamentary, or otherwise material to the matter before the Court, which is shown to be in the possession or under the control of that person. (2) If it is not shown that any such paper or writing is in the possession or under the control of that person, but it appears that there are reasonable grounds for believing that he or she has the knowledge of any such paper or writing, the Court may direct him or her to attend for the purpose of being examined in open court or upon interrogatories respecting the paper or writing. (3) Any such person directed so to attend shall be bound to answer such questions or interrogatories, and (if so ordered) to produce and bring in the paper or writing, and shall be subject to the like process of contempt in case of default in not attending or in not answering those questions or interrogatories, or not bringing in that paper or writing, as he or she would have been subject to in case he or she had been a party to a suit in the Court and had made that default.

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