Article 13 Effect of dissolution or annulment of marriage

provisions of the will appointing executors or trustees or conferring a power of appointment, if they appoint or confer the power on the former spouse, take effect as if the former spouse had died on the date on which the marriage is dissolved or annulled, and

except as provided in paragraph (2), any property comprising or included in a gift to the former spouse passes as if the former spouse had died on that date.

dissolved by a decree of divorce F2or divorce order, or annulled by a decree of nullity of marriage F3or nullity of marriage order, granted or made under the law of any part of the United Kingdom or the Channel Islands or under the law of the Isle of Man, or

dissolved or annulled in any country or territory outside the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man by a divorce or annulment which is entitled to be recognised as valid by the law of Northern Ireland;