{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-law-scotland-act-1985/section-24",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-law-scotland-act-1985/section-24.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1985/37",
  "legislation_title": "Family Law (Scotland) Act 1985",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-law-scotland-act-1985",
  "path": "section/24",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "24",
  "heading": "Marriage not to affect property rights or legal capacity.",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the provisions of any enactment (including this Act), marriage or civil partnership shall not of itself affect—\n(a) the respective rights of the parties to the marriage, or as the case may be the partners in the civil partnership, in relation to their property;\n(b) the legal capacity of those parties or partners.\n(2) Nothing in subsection (1) above affects the law of succession.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 24(1) inserted (5.12.2005) by virtue of Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33), s. 263(10)(c), Sch. 28 para. 27(a); S.S.I. 2005/604, arts. 2(c), 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 24(1)(a) inserted (5.12.2005) by Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33), s. 263(10)(c), Sch. 28 para. 27(b); S.S.I. 2005/604, arts. 2(c), 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 24(1)(b) substituted (5.12.2005) by Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33), s. 263(10)(c), Sch. 28 para. 27(c); S.S.I. 2005/604, arts. 2(c), 4"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/37/section/24",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:00:15.003147+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."
}