{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/married-womens-property-act-1907/section-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/married-womens-property-act-1907/section-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Edw7/7/18",
  "legislation_title": "Married Women’s Property Act 1907",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/married-womens-property-act-1907",
  "path": "section/3",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Married woman entitled to prior estate to be protector of settlement alone.",
  "text": "(1) Where a married woman would, if single, be the protector of a settlement in respect of a prior estate, . . . then she alone shall, in respect of that estate, be the protector of the settlement.\n(2) This section applies to disentailing assurances and surrenders made after the thirty-first day of December one thousand eight hundred and eighty-two, and as well before as after the commencement of this Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words repealed by Law Reform (Married Women and Tortfeasors) Act 1935 (c. 30), Sch. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Edw7/7/18/section/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:22:22.013206+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."
}