Succession (Scotland) Act 2016

1. Introductory Text

2. Testamentary documents and special destinations

   1. 1. Effect of divorce, dissolution or annulment on will

   2. 2. Effect of divorce, dissolution or annulment on special destination

   3. 3. Rectification of will

   4. 4. Rectification of will: supplementary

   5. 5. Revocation of will not to revive earlier revoked will

   6. 6. Death before legacy vests: entitlement of issue

   7. 7. Liferent: vesting of fee other than on death

   8. 8. Destinations in wills and certain trusts: conditional institution

3. Survivorship

   1. 9. Uncertainty of survivorship treated as failure to survive

   2. 10. Equal division of property if order of beneficiaries' deaths uncertain

   3. 11. Testamentary requirement of survival for a particular period

4. Forfeiture

   1. 12. Person forfeiting to be treated as having failed to survive victim

   2. 13. Protection for persons acquiring in good faith and for value

   3. 14. Power of sheriff to order sheriff clerk to execute document

   4. 15. Total relief from forfeiture rule

   5. 16. Time limit for applying for relief from forfeiture rule

   6. 17. Repeal of the Parricide Act

5. Estate administration

   1. 18. Confirmation of executors: no requirement to find caution in relation to small intestate estate

   2. 19. Confirmation of executors: general exceptions to requirement to find caution

   3. 20. Confirmation of executors: power of Ministers to abolish requirement for executors dative to find caution

   4. 21. Power of Ministers to make provision requiring conditions to be met before courts appoint persons as executors dative

   5. 22. Sections 19, 20 and 21: regulations

   6. 23. Errors in distribution: protection of trustees and executors in certain circumstances

   7. 24. Protection of persons acquiring title

6. Other reforms

   1. 25. Gifts made in contemplation of death

   2. 26. Abolition of right to claim in respect of expense of mournings

   3. 27. Additional ground of jurisdiction: executor confirmed in Scotland

7. General

   1. 28. Interpretation

   2. 29. Consequential provision

   3. 30. Ancillary provision

   4. 31. Commencement

   5. 32. Short title

8. 1. SCHEDULE

      MODIFICATIONS OF ENACTMENTS

      1. The Succession (Scotland) Act 1964

         1. 1. (1) The Succession (Scotland) Act 1964 is modified as follows....

      2. The Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1968

         1. 2. Section 7 of the Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act...

      3. Civil Partnership Act 2004

         1. 3. Section 124A of the Civil Partnership Act 2004 is repealed....

      4. Family Law (Scotland) Act 2006

         1. 4. Section 19 of the Family Law (Scotland) Act 2006 is...