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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/law-reform-miscellaneous-provisions-scotland-act-1980/section-5",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1980/55",
  "legislation_title": "Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1980",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/law-reform-miscellaneous-provisions-scotland-act-1980",
  "path": "section/5",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Finding of caution by intestate’s spouse.",
  "text": "In section 2 of the Confirmation of Executors (Scotland) Act 1823 (court to regulate caution to be found), for the words “executors-nominate; and in” there shall be substituted in words—\n“(a) an executor-nominate; or\n(b) an intestate’s spouse who shall be executor-dative and has right, by virtue of sections 8 and 9(2) of the Succession (Scotland) Act 1964, to the whole estate.\nIn ”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "The text of ss. 2(3), 4, 5, 7–10, 13–16, 17(4), 19, 21, 22(1)(a)(b)(d), 24, Sch. 2 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1980/55/section/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:15:07.643842+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."
}