{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/perpetuities-and-accumulations-act-1964/section-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/perpetuities-and-accumulations-act-1964/section-5.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1964/55",
  "legislation_title": "Perpetuities and Accumulations Act 1964",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/perpetuities-and-accumulations-act-1964",
  "path": "section/5",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Condition relating to death of surviving spouse.",
  "text": "Where a disposition is limited by reference to the time of death of the survivor of a person in being at the commencement of the perpetuity period and any spouse of that person, and that time has not arrived at the end of the perpetuity period, the disposition shall be treated for all purposes, where to do so would save it from being void for remoteness, as if it had instead been limited by reference to the time immediately before the end of that period.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Ss. 1-12 excluded (6.4.2010) by Perpetuities and Accumulations Act 2009 (c. 18), ss. 12(2)(d), 22(2) (with s. 15(1)(4), 17, 18); S.I. 2010/37, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1964/55/section/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:59:20.462512+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."
}