{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wills-and-administration-proceedings-northern-ireland-order-1994/article-2",
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  "legislation": "nisi/1994/1899",
  "legislation_title": "The Wills and Administration Proceedings (Northern Ireland) Order 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wills-and-administration-proceedings-northern-ireland-order-1994",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 applies to Article 1 and the following provisions of this Order as it applies to a Measure of the Northern Ireland Assembly.\n(2) In this Order—\n“gift” means a devise or bequest or the exercise of a general power of appointment;\n“personal representatives” means the executors or executor, original or by representation, or the administrators or administrator for the time being of a deceased person;\n“property” includes any estate in land, any chattels, any thing in action, and any rights which are treated commercially as property and also includes any interest in property;\n“statutory provision” has the meaning given by section 1(f) of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954;\n“witness”, in relation to a will, means a witness who attests the testator's signature or acknowledgment of his signature and signs the will in the presence of the testator, or a witness who, having signed the will before the testator, acknowledges his signature in the presence of the testator.\n(3) In this Order, any reference to a person's “estate” is a reference to all property to which he is beneficially entitled for an estate or interest not ceasing on his death.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1954 c. 33 (NI)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1994/1899/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:44:37.123327+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."
}