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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/confirmation-to-small-estates-scotland-act-1979/section-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/confirmation-to-small-estates-scotland-act-1979/section-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1979/22",
  "legislation_title": "Confirmation to Small Estates (Scotland) Act 1979",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/confirmation-to-small-estates-scotland-act-1979",
  "path": "section/3",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Short title, extent, construction and commencement.",
  "text": "(1) This Act may be cited as the Confirmation to Small Estates (Scotland) Act 1979 and extends to Scotland only.\n(2) This Act, except this section, shall come into force on such date as the Secretary of State may by order made by statutory instrument appoint.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 3(3) repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1981 (c. 19), s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. IV"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Power of appointment conferred by s. 3(2) fully exercised: 1.7.1980 appointed by S.I. 1980/734"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1979/22/section/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:18:19.185900+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."
}