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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-partnership-act-2004/schedule-4/paragraph-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-partnership-act-2004/schedule-4/paragraph-5.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2004/33",
  "legislation_title": "Civil Partnership Act 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-partnership-act-2004",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Except where a contrary intention is shown, it is presumed that if a testator—\n(a) devises or bequeaths property to his civil partner in terms which in themselves would give an absolute interest to the civil partner, but\n(b) by the same instrument purports to give his issue an interest in the same property,\nthe gift to the civil partner is absolute despite the purported gift to the issue.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2004/33/schedule/4/paragraph/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:16:53.191982+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."
}