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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/succession-scotland-act-2016/section-25",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/succession-scotland-act-2016/section-25.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2016/7",
  "legislation_title": "Succession (Scotland) Act 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/succession-scotland-act-2016",
  "path": "section/25",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "25",
  "heading": "Gifts made in contemplation of death",
  "text": "(1) The customary mode of making a conditional gift in contemplation of death known as making a donation mortis causa is abolished.\n(2) Subsection (1) does not prevent the making of a conditional gift other than in that customary mode.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 25 in force at 1.11.2016 by S.S.I. 2016/210, reg. 2(1)(b) (with reg. 3(3))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2016/7/section/25",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:13:37.201582+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."
}