{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/settled-land-act-1925/section-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/settled-land-act-1925/section-13.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo5/15-16/18",
  "legislation_title": "Settled Land Act 1925",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/settled-land-act-1925",
  "path": "section/13",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Dispositions not to take effect until vesting instrument is made.",
  "text": "Where a tenant for life or statutory owner has become entitled to have a principal vesting deed or a vesting assent executed in his favour, then until a vesting instrument is executed or made pursuant to this Act in respect of the settled land, any purported disposition thereof inter vivos by any person, other than a personal representative (not being a disposition which he has power to make in right of his equitable interests or powers under a trust instrument), shall not take effect except in favour of a purchaser of a legal estate without notice of such tenant for life or statutory owner having become so entitled as aforesaid. but, save as aforesaid, shall operate only as a contract for valuable consideration to carry out the transaction after the requisite vesting instrument has been executed or made, and a purchaser of a legal estate shall not be concerned with such disposition unless the contract is registered as a land charge. Nothing in this section affects the creation or transfer of a legal estate by virtue of an order of the court or the Minister or other competent authority.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words substituted by Law of Property (Amendment) Act 1926 (c. 11), Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Proviso added by Law of Property (Amendment) Act 1926 (c. 11), s. 6"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/15-16/18/section/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:43:10.879442+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."
}