{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/inheritance-and-trustees-powers-act-2014/section-5",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2014/16",
  "legislation_title": "Inheritance and Trustees' Powers Act 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/inheritance-and-trustees-powers-act-2014",
  "path": "section/5",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Presumption of prior death",
  "text": "In section 18 of the Family Law Reform Act 1987 (succession on intestacy), after subsection (2) insert—\n“(2ZA) Subsection (2) does not apply if a person is recorded as the intestate's father, or as a parent (other than the mother) of the intestate—\n(a) in a register of births kept (or having effect as if kept) under the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953, or\n(b) in a record of a birth included in an index kept under section 30(1) of that Act (indexes relating to certain other registers etc).”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 5 in force at 1.10.2014 by S.I. 2014/2039, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2014/16/section/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:07:39.948228+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."
}