{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/married-womens-property-act-1907/section-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/married-womens-property-act-1907/section-4.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/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "†Short title; commencement; construction.",
  "text": "(1) This Act may be cited as the Married Women’s Property Act, 1907.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) This Act shall not extend to Scotland.\n(4) This Act shall be construed with the Married Women’s Property Acts, 1882 , 1884, and 1893, and those Acts and this Act may be cited together as the Married Women’s Property Acts, 1882 to 1907.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 4(2) repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1950 (c. 6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1882 c. 75"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1884 c. 14."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "1893 c. 63"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "A dagger appended to a marginal note means that it is no longer accurate"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Edw7/7/18/section/4",
    "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."
}