The Administration of Estates (Rights of Surviving Spouse or Civil Partner) Order (Northern Ireland) 2007 No. 452

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The Administration of Estates (Rights of Surviving Spouse or Civil Partner) Order (Northern Ireland) 2007

Made

29th October 2007

Affirmed by resolution of the Assembly on

10th December 2007

Coming into operation

1st January 2008

The Department of Finance and Personnel makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 7(4A) of the Administration of Estates Act (Northern Ireland) 1955(1), and now vested in it(2):

Citation and commencement

1. This Order may be cited as the Administration of Estates (Rights of Surviving Spouse or Civil Partner) Order (Northern Ireland) 2007 and shall come into operation on 1st January 2008.

Increase of surviving spouse´s or civil partner´s rights on intestacy

2. In relation to the estate of a person dying after the coming into operation of this Order, section 7 (rights of surviving spouse or civil partner)(3) of the Administration of Estates Act (Northern Ireland) 1955 shall be amended as follows:

(a) in subsection (2) for "£125,000"(4) wherever it occurs there shall be substituted "£250,000"; and

(b) in subsection (4) for "£200,000"(4) wherever it occurs there shall be substituted "£450,000".

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Finance and Personnel on 29th October 2007.

2004 c. 33 Sched. 14 para 9 to include references to a civil partner of the deceased intestate. Back [3]

(4)

See S.R. 1993 No. 426. Back [4]



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