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title: "Succession (Scotland) Act 1973"
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# Succession (Scotland) Act 1973

## Title and introductory text {#prelims}

Succession (Scotland) Act 1973
1973 c.25
An Act to increase the amounts of the sums payable to a surviving spouse under sections 8 and 9 of the Succession (Scotland) Act 1964 and to empower the Secretary of State by order further to increase such amounts.
[23rd May 1973]

## 1 Amendment of sections 8 and 9 of Succession (Scotland) Act 1964. {#section-1}

(1) In the case of a person dying after the commencement of this Act—
(a) section 8 of the Succession (Scotland) Act 1964 (prior rights of surviving spouse, on intestacy, in dwelling house and furinture) shall apply as if—
(i) for the words “£15,000” in subsection (1)(a) and (b) there were substituted the words “£30,000 or such larger amount as may from time to time be fixed by order of the Secretary of State” ;
(ii) for the words “£5,000” in subsection (3)(a) and (b) there were substituted the words “£8,000 or such larger amount as may from time to time be fixed by order of the Secretary of State” ;
(b) section 9 of the said Act of 1964 (prior right of surviving spouse to financial provision of inestacy) shall apply as if—
(i) for the words “£2,500, or” in subsection (1)(a) there were substituted the words “£4,000 or such larger amount as may from time to time be fixed by oder of the Secretary of State, or” ;
(ii) for the words “£5,000” in subsection (1)(b) there were substituted the words “£8,000 or such larger amount as may from time to time be fixed by oder of the Secretary of State” ;
(iii) in the proviso to the said subsection (1) for the words from “of £2,500” to “£5,000” there were substituted the words “fixed by virtue of paragraph (a) of this subsection or the sum fixed by virtue of paragraph (b) of this subsection”.
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## 2 Short title. {#section-2}

This Act may be cited as the Succession (Scotland) Act 1973