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92Registrar may issue subpoena to produce papers
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92 Registrar may issue subpoena to produce papers
(1) The Registrar may issue a subpoena to any person, requiring them to deliver or send to the Registrar, at the address specified in the subpoena, any paper or writing being or purporting to be testamentary which may be shown to be in the possession, or within the power, or under the control, of such a person.
(2) Such a person, on being served with a subpoena under subrule (1) , must deliver or send such paper or writing, and is to be held in contempt if they fail to do so as if they had been ordered by a judge to produce and bring in such paper or writing.