# Inheritance and Trustees' Powers Act 2014, Section 5: Presumption of prior death


In section 18 of the Family Law Reform Act 1987 (succession on intestacy), after subsection (2) insert—
“(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—
(a) in a register of births kept (or having effect as if kept) under the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953, or
(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).”

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2014/16/section/5 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/inheritance-and-trustees-powers-act-2014/section-5
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