{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/administration-of-estates-act-1971/section-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/administration-of-estates-act-1971/section-10.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1971/25",
  "legislation_title": "Administration of Estates Act 1971",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/administration-of-estates-act-1971",
  "path": "section/10",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Retainer, preference and the payment of debts by personal representatives.",
  "text": "(1) The right of retainer of a personal representative and his right to prefer creditors are hereby abolished.\n(2) Nevertheless a personal representative—\n(a) other than one mentioned in paragraph (b) below, who, in good faith and at a time when he has no reason to believe that the deceased’s estate is insolvent, pays the debt of any person (including himself) who is a creditor of the estate; or\n(b) to whom letters of administration had been granted solely by reason of his being a creditor and who, in good faith and at such a time pays the debt of another person who is a creditor of the estate;\nshall not, if it subsequently appears that the estate is insolvent, be liable to account to a creditor of the same degree as the paid creditor for the sum so paid.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/25/section/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:50:14.316835+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}