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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/confirmation-to-small-estates-scotland-order-1999/article-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1999/290",
  "legislation_title": "The Confirmation to Small Estates (Scotland) Order 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/confirmation-to-small-estates-scotland-order-1999",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendment of legislation",
  "text": "In each of the following provisions of the Small Testate Estates (Scotland) Act 1876, namely:–\n(a) section 3(confirmation to small testate estate); and\n(b) Schedule A (form of inventory and relative declaration),\nfor the words “£17,000” there shall be substituted the words “£25,000”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1876 c. 24; section 3 was amended by the Small Estates (Representation) Act 1961 (c. 37), section 1(1) and Schedule 1, paragraph 2(1) and by the Administration of Estates Act 1971 (c. 25), section 12(1) and Schedule 2, Part I; section 3 was further amended and Schedule A was amended by the Confirmation to Small Estates (Scotland) Act 1979 (c. 22), section 1(2), by the Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1990 (c. 40), sections 74(1), 75(2), Schedule 8, paragraphs 25(1)(b), 25(2)(a) to (d) and Schedule 9 and S.I. 1989/289."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/290/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:08:58.768565+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."
}