Paragraph 3 Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975I1

United Kingdom

(1)

The Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975^f1 is amended as follows.

(2)

In section 1—

(a)

in subsection (1)(ba), omit “or (1B)”;

(b)

in subsection (1A)(b), for “as the husband or wife of the deceased” substitute “as if that person and the deceased were a married couple or civil partners”;

(c)

omit subsection (1B).

(3)

In section 3(2A)(a), for the words from “as the husband” to the end substitute “in the same household as the deceased as if the applicant and the deceased were a married couple or civil partners”.

Annotations

Commencement

I1: Sch. 3 para. 3 in force at 2.12.2019, see reg. 1(2)

Footnotes

f1: 1975 c. 63. Relevant amendments were made to sections 1 and 3 by the Law Reform Succession Act 1995 (c. 41), section 2; and the Civil Partnership Act 2004, Schedule 4, paragraphs 15 and 18.