Intestate Husband's Estate (Scotland) Act 1959

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1959 c. 21
Year1959


Intestate Husband's Estate (Scotland) Act, 1959

(7 & 8 Eliz. 2) CHAPTER 21

An Act to increase the sum to which a surviving husband or wife is entitled by virtue of the Intestate Husband's Estate (Scotland) Acts, 1911 and 1919, and section five of the Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act, 1940.

Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

S-1 Amendment of Intestate Husband's Estate \(Scotland) Acts.

1 Amendment of Intestate Husband's Estate \(Scotland) Acts.

(1) The Intestate Husband's Estate (Scotland) Acts, 1911 and 1919 , and section five of the Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act, 1940 (whereby a surviving husband or wife is entitled, subject to the provisions of those enactments, to receive, if the net value of the intestate estate of his or her deceased wife or husband does not exceed five hundred pounds, the whole estate, or, if it exceeds five hundred pounds, the sum of five hundred pounds thereout) shall have effect as if for the words ‘five hundred pounds’ (wherever they occur) there were substituted the words ‘five thousand pounds’.

(2) This section shall have effect in relation to any husband or wife whose death occurs after the expiration of a period of one month beginning with the date of the passing of this Act.

S-2 Citation.

2 Citation.

2. This Act may be cited as theIntestate Husband's Estate (Scotland) Act, 1959, and the Intestate Husband's Estate (Scotland) Acts, 1911 and 1919, section five of the Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act, 1940, and this...

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