SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 4E+WMinor and consequential amendments

Administration of Estates Act 1925E+W

1(1)The Administration of Estates Act 1925 is amended as follows.E+W

(2)Omit section 46(3) (which relates to deaths in circumstances where it is uncertain which of two people survived the other).

(3)Omit section 47A (right of surviving spouse to have own life interest redeemed).

(4)In section 48 (powers of personal representative in respect of interests of surviving spouse), in subsection (2), omit the following—

(a)paragraph (b), and the word “and” after paragraph (a), and

(b)the words “in either case”.

(5)In section 49 (application of Part 4 of Act to partial intestacies), omit subsection (4).