{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wills-act-1963/section-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wills-act-1963/section-7.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1963/44",
  "legislation_title": "Wills Act 1963",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wills-act-1963",
  "path": "section/7",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Short title, commencement, repeal and extent.",
  "text": "(1) This Act may be cited as the Wills Act 1963.\n(2) This Act shall come into operation on 1st January 1964.\n(3) The Wills Act 1861 is hereby repealed.\n(4) This Act shall not apply to a will of a testator who died before the time of the commencement of this Act and shall apply to a will of a testator who dies after that time whether the will was executed before or after that time, but so that the repeal of the Wills Act 1861 shall not invalidate a will executed before that time.\n(5) It is hereby declared that this Act extends to Northern Ireland, . . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words repealed by Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973 (c. 36), Sch. 6 Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1861 c. 114."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "The text of s. 7(3) is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1963/44/section/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:00:17.964835+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."
}