http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/633/contents/madeThe Prior Rights of Surviving Spouse (Scotland) Order 1988LegislationKing's Printer of Acts of Parliament2011-07-04SUCCESSION, SCOTLAND Where a person dies intestate leaving a spouse, the surviving spouse’s prior rights in terms of sections 8 and 9 of the Succession (Scotland) Act 1964 are at present as follows:—Where the deceased had an interest as owner or tenant in a dwellinghouse in which the surviving spouse was ordinarily resident, the surviving spouse has a prior right—where the value of the interest does not exceed £50,000, to the interest (or in certain cases to a sum equal to its value); orin any other case, to the sum of £50,000.Where the deceased owned the furniture and plenishings of a dwellinghouse in which the surviving spouse was ordinarily resident, the surviving spouse has a prior right—where the value of the furniture and plenishings does not exceed £10,000, to the whole furniture and plenishings; orin any other case, to such part of the furniture and plenishings, to a value not exceeding £10,000, as the surviving spouse may choose.The surviving spouse has a prior right—where the deceased left issue, to the sum of £15,000; orwhere the deceased left no issue, to the sum of £25,000. The Prior Rights of Surviving Spouse (Scotland) Order 1988InstrumentThe Prior Rights of Surviving Spouse (Scotland) Order 1993The Prior Rights of Surviving Spouse (Scotland) art.3 The Prior Rights of Surviving Spouse (Scotland) Order 1988 1(1) This Order may be cited as the Prior Rights... 2For the purposes of each of the provisions of the... 3The Prior Rights of Surviving Spouse (Scotland) Order 1981 is... SCHEDULE 1988 No. 633 (S.73) SUCCESSION, SCOTLAND The Prior Rights of Surviving Spouse (Scotland) Order 1988 Made 24th March 1988 Laid before Parliament 8th April 1988 Coming into force 1st May 1988 The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 8, 9 and 9A of the Succession (Scotland) Act 1964 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order: 1964 c. 41; sections 8 and 9 were amended by the Succession (Scotland) Act 1973 (c. 25), section 1(1); section 9 was amended and section 9A was inserted, by the Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1980 (c. 55), section 4; section 9 was also amended by the Law Reform (Parent and Child) (Scotland) Act 1986 (c. 9), Schedule 2.
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