Cap. 12 Art. 535AOpening of wills older than one hundred and fifty years.

(1) Where any secret wills have been received by the Registrar in accordance with the provisions of this Title which have not been withdrawn by the testators, or opened and published, and one hundred and fifty years have elapsed since the date of the presentation of the wills, the registrar shall prepare and publish a list of the said wills in the Gazette.

(2) After the publication of the list mentioned in sub-article (1) in the Gazette, the court shall establish a day and time in which the wills mentioned in the list shall be opened in public without the necessity of their being read. The court shall then order that the said wills be transmitted to the archivist of Notarial Acts who shall register these wills in a book to be kept by him and the other provisions of this Title regarding the opening and publication of secret wills shall not apply. The court shall draw up a procès-verbal of the opening of the said wills, which shall only state the date and place of their opening, and whether the document so published contains a will or not. A copy of such together with procès-verbal, those wills shall be transmitted to the archivist of Notarial Acts, and from that date such wills shall be open to inspection and to the issue of copies thereof.