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title: "Married Women’s Property Act 1907"
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# Married Women’s Property Act 1907

## Title and introductory text {#prelims}

Married Women’s Property Act 1907
1907 c.18
An Act to amend the Married Women’s Property Act, 1882.
[21st August 1907]

## 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . {#section-1}



## 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . {#section-2}



## 3 Married woman entitled to prior estate to be protector of settlement alone. {#section-3}

(1) Where a married woman would, if single, be the protector of a settlement in respect of a prior estate, . . . then she alone shall, in respect of that estate, be the protector of the settlement.
(2) This section applies to disentailing assurances and surrenders made after the thirty-first day of December one thousand eight hundred and eighty-two, and as well before as after the commencement of this Act.

## 4 †Short title; commencement; construction. {#section-4}

(1) This Act may be cited as the Married Women’s Property Act, 1907.
(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(3) This Act shall not extend to Scotland.
(4) This Act shall be construed with the Married Women’s Property Acts, 1882 , 1884, and 1893, and those Acts and this Act may be cited together as the Married Women’s Property Acts, 1882 to 1907.