{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/inheritance-provision-for-family-and-dependants-act-1975/section-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/inheritance-provision-for-family-and-dependants-act-1975/section-15.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1975/63",
  "legislation_title": "Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/inheritance-provision-for-family-and-dependants-act-1975",
  "path": "section/15",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Restriction imposed in divorce proceedings etc. on application under this Act.",
  "text": "(1) On the making of a divorce, nullity of marriage or judicial separation order or at any time thereafter the court, if it considers it just to do so, may, on the application of either party to the marriage, order that the other party to the marriage shall not on the death of the applicant be entitled to apply for an order under section 2 of this Act.\nIn this subsection “ the court ” means the High Court or the family court.\n(2) In the case of a divorce or nullity of marriage order an order may be made under subsection (1) above before or after the divorce or nullity of marriage order is made final, but if it is made before that order is made final it shall not take effect unless that order is made final.\n(3) Where an order made under subsection (1) above on the making of a divorce or nullity of marriage order has come into force with respect to a party to a marriage, then, on the death of the other party to that marriage, the court shall not entertain any application for an order under section 2 of this Act made by the first-mentioned party.\n(4) Where an order made under subsection (1) above on the making of a judicial separation order has come into force with respect to any party to a marriage, then, if the other party to that marriage dies while the order is in force and the separation is continuing, the court shall not entertain any application for an order under section 2 of this Act made by the first-mentioned party.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 15(1) substituted by Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 (c. 42, SIF 49:3), s. 8(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 15(1) substituted (6.4.2022) by Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Act 2020 (c. 11), s. 8(1)(8), Sch. para. 44(5)(a); S.I. 2022/283, reg. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 15(1) substituted (22.4.2014) by Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22), s. 61(3), Sch. 10 para. 36(2); S.I. 2014/954, art. 2(d) (with art. 3) (with transitional provisions and savings in S.I. 2014/956, arts. 3-11)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 15(2) substituted (6.4.2022) by Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Act 2020 (c. 11), s. 8(1)(8), Sch. para. 44(5)(b)(i); S.I. 2022/283, reg. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 15(2) substituted (6.4.2022) by Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Act 2020 (c. 11), s. 8(1)(8), Sch. para. 44(5)(b)(ii); S.I. 2022/283, reg. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 15(3) substituted (6.4.2022) by Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Act 2020 (c. 11), s. 8(1)(8), Sch. para. 44(5)(c); S.I. 2022/283, reg. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in s. 15(4) substituted (6.4.2022) by Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Act 2020 (c. 11), s. 8(1)(8), Sch. para. 44(5)(d)(i); S.I. 2022/283, reg. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in s. 15(4) substituted (6.4.2022) by Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Act 2020 (c. 11), s. 8(1)(8), Sch. para. 44(5)(d)(ii); S.I. 2022/283, reg. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended (prosp.)",
      "affecting": "ukpga/1996/27",
      "affecting_title": "Family Law Act 1996"
    },
    {
      "type": "replaced (by s.15(2)(3)) (prosp.)",
      "affecting": "ukpga/1996/27",
      "affecting_title": "Family Law Act 1996"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended (prosp.)",
      "affecting": "ukpga/1996/27",
      "affecting_title": "Family Law Act 1996"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1975/63/section/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:36:30.615081+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."
}