{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/intestates-estates-act-1952/schedule-FIRST/paragraph-48",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/intestates-estates-act-1952/schedule-FIRST/paragraph-48.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6and1Eliz2/15-16/64",
  "legislation_title": "Intestates’ Estates Act 1952",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/intestates-estates-act-1952",
  "path": "schedule/FIRST/paragraph/48",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "48",
  "heading": "Powers of personal representative in respect of interests of surviving spouse.",
  "text": "(1)\n(2) The personal representatives may raise—\n(a) the net sum of five thousand, or as the case may be, twenty thousand pounds or any part thereof and the interest thereon payable to the surviving husband or wife of the intestate on the security of the whole or any part of the residuary estate of the intestate (other than the personal chattels), so far as that estate may be sufficient for the purpose or the said sum and interest may not have been satisfied by an appropriation under the statutory power available in that behalf; and\n(b) in like manner the capital sum, if any, required for the purchase or redemption of the life interest of the surviving husband or wife of the intestate, or any part thereof not satisfied by the application for that purpose of any part of the residuary estate of the intestate;\nand in either case the amount, if any, properly required for the payment of the costs of the transaction.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6and1Eliz2/15-16/64/schedule/FIRST/paragraph/48",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:17:12.650534+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."
}