Section 50 Death: application of law in Scotland.
United Kingdom
The provisions of this Act, so far as relating to the consequences of the death of an heir of entail in possession of any property in Scotland subject to an entail, whether sui juris or not, or of a proper liferenter of any property, shall have effect subject to the provisions of this section.
For the purposes of this Act, on the death of any such heir or liferenter the heir of entail next entitled to the entailed property under the entail or, as the case may be, the person (if any) who, on the death of the liferenter, becomes entitled to possession of the property as fiar shall be deemed to have acquired all the assets forming part of the property at the date of the deceased’s death for a consideration equal to their market value at that date.
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Act repealed (6.3.1992 with effect as mentioned in s. 289(1)(2) of the repealing Act) by Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992 (c. 12), ss. 289, 290, Sch.12 (with s. 201(3), Sch. 11 paras. 20, 22, 26(2), 27 and with saving in Sch. 11 para. 24(2)) and subject to an amendment (prosp.) by Museum and Galleries Act 1992 (c. 44), s. 11(2), Sch. 8 Pt. I para. 1(1)(2)(7), and amendments by: Disability Living Allowance and Disability Working Allowance Act 1991 (c. 21), s. 4(2), Sch. 2 para. 9(1)(2) (in force 6.4.1992 by S.I. 1991/2617, art. 2(f)); S.I. 1991/2874, art. 2 (in force 6.4.1992 by S.R. 1992/94, art. 2); Social Security (Consequential Provisions) Act 1992 (c. 6), s. 4, Sch. 2 para. 52(a)(b) (in force 1.7.1992 by s. 7(2) of the amending Act); Social Security (Consequential Provisions) (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (c. 9), s. 4, Sch. 2 para. 20(a)(b) (in force 1.7.1992 by s. 7(2) of the amending Act); Finance (No. 2) Act 1992 (c. 48), ss. 35(2), 47, 48, 56, 77, Sch. 9 para. 20(1)(inserting ss. 143A and 143B), Sch. 17 paras. 3, 6(2)(5), 7, (the amendments coming into force 16.7.1992 except for the amendment by s. 56, Sch. 9 para. 20(1) which comes into force on 19.2.1993 by S.I. 1993/236, art. 2); and amendments (retrospective to 1.1.1992) by ss. 35(2), 47, 48 of the same 1992 Act, and amendments (27.7.1993 with effect as mentioned in ss. 84(3), 86(4), 88(4), 105(4) of the amending Act) by 1993 c. 34, ss. 84(3), 86(4), 88(4)(a)(b), 105(3)(4)