{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/debts-deceased-servicemen-etc-act-1893/section-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/debts-deceased-servicemen-etc-act-1893/section-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/56-57/5",
  "legislation_title": "Debts (Deceased Servicemen etc) Act 1893",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/debts-deceased-servicemen-etc-act-1893",
  "path": "section/3",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Surplus only of personal estate to be deemed personal estate.",
  "text": "So much only of the personal property of a person dying while subject to service law as remains after payment of the preferential charges shall be considered personal estate of the deceased with reference to the calculation of. . . . any . . . . duty, tax, or per-centage, or for any of the purposes of administration.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Act substituted (28.3.2009 for specified purposes, 31.10.2009 in so far as not already in force) by Armed Forces Act 2006 (c. 52), s. 383(2), Sch. 16 para. 6; S.I. 2009/812, art. 3(a)(b) (with transitional provisions in S.I. 2009/1059); S.I. 2009/1167, art. 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words repealed with saving by Finance Act 1975 (c. 7), ss. 50, 52, 59(5), Sch. 13 Pt. I"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/56-57/5/section/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:31:44.398916+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."
}