{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/inheritance-provision-for-family-and-dependants-act-1975/section-23",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/inheritance-provision-for-family-and-dependants-act-1975/section-23.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/23",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Determination of date on which representation was first taken out",
  "text": "(1) The following are to be left out of account when considering for the purposes of this Act when representation with respect to the estate of a deceased person was first taken out—\n(a) a grant limited to settled land or to trust property,\n(b) any other grant that does not permit any of the estate to be distributed,\n(c) a grant limited to real estate or to personal estate, unless a grant limited to the remainder of the estate has previously been made or is made at the same time,\n(d) a grant, or its equivalent, made outside the United Kingdom (but see subsection (2) below).\n(2) A grant sealed under section 2 of the Colonial Probates Act 1892 counts as a grant made in the United Kingdom for the purposes of this section, but is to be taken as dated on the date of sealing.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 23 substituted (1.10.2014) by Inheritance and Trustees' Powers Act 2014 (c. 16), s. 12(2), Sch. 3 para. 2 (with s. 12(4)); S.I. 2014/2039, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "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/23",
    "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."
}