Succession (Scotland) Act 2016
Testamentary documents and special destinations
1Effect of divorce, dissolution or annulment on will
2Effect of divorce, dissolution or annulment on special destination
3Rectification of will
4Rectification of will: supplementary
5Revocation of will not to revive earlier revoked will
6Death before legacy vests: entitlement of issue
7Liferent: vesting of fee other than on death
8Destinations in wills and certain trusts: conditional institution
Survivorship
9Uncertainty of survivorship treated as failure to survive
10Equal division of property if order of beneficiaries' deaths uncertain
11Testamentary requirement of survival for a particular period
Forfeiture
12Person forfeiting to be treated as having failed to survive victim
13Protection for persons acquiring in good faith and for value
14Power of sheriff to order sheriff clerk to execute document
15Total relief from forfeiture rule
16Time limit for applying for relief from forfeiture rule
17Repeal of the Parricide Act
Estate administration
18Confirmation of executors: no requirement to find caution in relation to small intestate estate
19Confirmation of executors: general exceptions to requirement to find caution
20Confirmation of executors: power of Ministers to abolish requirement for executors dative to find caution
21Power of Ministers to make provision requiring conditions to be met before courts appoint persons as executors dative
22Sections 19, 20 and 21: regulations
23Errors in distribution: protection of trustees and executors in certain circumstances
24Protection of persons acquiring title
Other reforms
25Gifts made in contemplation of death
26Abolition of right to claim in respect of expense of mournings
27Additional ground of jurisdiction: executor confirmed in Scotland
General
28Interpretation
29Consequential provision
30Ancillary provision
31Commencement
32Short title
SCHEDULEMODIFICATIONS OF ENACTMENTS
The Succession (Scotland) Act 1964
1(1) The Succession (Scotland) Act 1964 is modified as follows....
The Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1968
2Section 7 of the Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act...
Civil Partnership Act 2004
3Section 124A of the Civil Partnership Act 2004 is repealed....
Family Law (Scotland) Act 2006
4Section 19 of the Family Law (Scotland) Act 2006 is...

Succession (Scotland) Act 2016

2016 asp 7

An Act of the Scottish Parliament to make provision about succession; to make provision about liferents; to amend the Trusts (Scotland) Act 1921; and for connected purposes.