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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/administration-of-estates-act-northern-ireland-1955/section-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/administration-of-estates-act-northern-ireland-1955/section-16.json",
  "legislation": "apni/1955/24",
  "legislation_title": "Administration of Estates Act (Northern Ireland) 1955",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/administration-of-estates-act-northern-ireland-1955",
  "path": "section/16",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Rights of the Crown.",
  "text": "(1 ) In default of any person taking the estate of an intestate under the foregoing provisions of this Part, that estate shall pass to the Crown as bona vacantia.\nSubs. (2) rep. by 1997 NI 8",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Mod., 1979 NI 8"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1955/24/section/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:33:26.086083+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."
}