Code of Organization and Civil Procedure (Cap. 12), article 535A

535A. (1) Where any secret wills have been received by the Registrar in accordance with the p rovisions of this Title which have not been withdrawn by the testators, or opened and published, a nd one hundred and fifty years have elapsed since the date of the presentation of the wills, the r egistrar shall prepare and publ ish 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 whi ch the wills mentioned in the list shall be opened in public without t he 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 da te and place of their opening, and whether the document so published contains a will or not. A copy of such procès-verbal , together with those wills shall be transmitted to the archivist of Notarial A cts, and from that date such wills shall be open to inspection and t o the issue of copies thereof. Title VI OF THE DECLARATION OF THE OPENING OF A SUCCESSION CODE OF ORGANIZATION AND CIVIL PROCEDURE [CAP. 12. 161 Declaration of the opening of succession. Substituted by: XXIV .1995.208. Amended by: IX.2004.11.