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Home<\/a><\/span> \u00bb Deaths Register<\/a><\/span> \u00bb Safe Deposit of Wills<\/span><\/span><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Safe Deposit of Wills<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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There is currently no legislation in the Falkland Islands regulating the deposit and safe custody of wills.  However, the Registry Office in Stanley offers this service and will, from the 1st<\/sup> August 2018,<\/strong> be adopting The Wills (deposit for safe custody) Regulations 1978 as best practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Registrar General, from this date, will require that the envelope containing the will\/codicil has the following endorsement on the front (amended as applicable):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This sealed packed contains the last Will and Testament [with a codicil thereto] [or codicil to the last Will and Testament: or as the case may be] [bearing date] [respectively] (state date of all testamentary documents enclosed) of me (full name) of (full postal address)

In which _______ of _______<\/em> and _______<\/em><\/em> of _______<\/em> 

Are appointed Executors, which I hereby lodge for deposit in the Registry Office, Town Hall, Stanley, Falkland Islands for safe custody.

I undertake to notify the above named Executors of their appointment and of the deposit of the will [and] [codicil]

I certify that the date of my birth was the  _______<\/em>

Dated this x day of x 20

Signed:

Testator<\/em><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
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The fee of \u00a310.50 is payable for each deposit.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Registrar General will issue a certificate detailing;<\/p>\n\n\n\n