Administration of Estates (Small Payments) Act 1965

7 Short title, interpretation, extent, commencement and repeals.U.K.

(1)This Act may be cited as the Administration of Estates (Small Payments) Act 1965.

(2)Any reference in this Act to an enactment or instrument shall be construed as including a reference to that enactment or instrument as amended, extended or applied by any other enactment or instrument.

(3)The amendment of any instrument by this Act shall be without prejudice to any power of amending or revoking that instrument.

(4)Save as otherwise expressly provided, so far as this Act amends or gives power to amend, or repeals, any provision which extends to any place outside Great Britain it shall have the same extent.

(5)Subject to sections 2(2) and 6(2) of this Act, this Act shall apply in relation to deaths occurring after the expiration of a period of one month beginning with the date on which it is passed.

(6)The enactments mentioned in Schedule 4 to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule, but this subsection shall not affect the operation of those enactments in relation to deaths occurring before the expiration of the said period.