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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/intestates-widows-and-children-scotland-act-1875/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/intestates-widows-and-children-scotland-act-1875/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/38-39/41",
  "legislation_title": "Intestates Widows and Children (Scotland) Act 1875",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/intestates-widows-and-children-scotland-act-1875",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act for the relief of Widows and Children of Intestates in Scotland where the Personal Estate is of small value.\n[19th July 1875]",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Act amended by Small Testate Estates (Scotland) Act 1876 (c. 24), s. 6; extended to intestates who have died domiciled furth of Scotland by Customs and Inland Revenue Act 1881 (c. 12), s. 34"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Functions of Commissary Courts and Commissary Clerks in Scotland (except Commissary Clerk of Edinburgh) now exercisable by Sheriffs and Sheriff Clerks: Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Act 1876 (c. 70), ss. 35-39, 54, Sheriff Courts and Legal Officers (Scotland) Act 1927 (c. 35), ss. 10, 11(1) and S.R. & O. 1933/1089 (1933, p. 520)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Preamble omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision (No. 2) Act 1893 (c. 54)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Words of enactment repealed by Statute Law Revision (No. 2) Act 1893 (c. 54)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "Confirmation of Executors (Scotland) Act cited or referred to by its short title under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1893 (c. 14), s. 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/38-39/41/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:48:30.339726+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."
}