{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/administration-of-estates-act-1971/section-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/administration-of-estates-act-1971/section-5.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1971/25",
  "legislation_title": "Administration of Estates Act 1971",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/administration-of-estates-act-1971",
  "path": "section/5",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Property outside Scotland of which deceased was trustee.",
  "text": "(1) A confirmation or additional confirmation granted in respect of property situated in Scotland of a person who died domiciled there, which notes that domicile, may contain or have appended thereto and signed by the sheriff clerk a note or statement of property in England and Wales or in Northern Ireland held by the deceased in trust, being a note or statement which has been set forth in any inventory recorded in the books of the court of which the sheriff clerk is clerk.\n(2) Section 1 or, as the case may be, section 2 of this Act shall apply in relation to property specified in such a note or statement as is mentioned in subsection (1) above as it applies in relation to property specified in the confirmation or additional confirmation concerned.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/25/section/5",
    "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."
}