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Married Women’s Property Act 1907 1907 c.18 An Act to amend the Married Women’s Property Act, 1882. [21st August 1907]
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Married Women’s Property Act 1907
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In force since 1991-02-01, as the publisher states.
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Propose a change3 Married woman entitled to prior estate to be protector of settlement alone.
(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.
Propose a change4 †Short title; commencement; construction.
(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.
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