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§ The Solicitor-GeneralI beg to move, in page 39, line 14, at the end, to insert:
(2) For the purpose of the application of this Part of this Act to Northern Ireland, for any reference to the sum of one thousand 1166 pounds charged by virtue of Section forty-six of the Administration of Estates Act, 1925, there shall be substituted a reference to the sum of five hundred pounds to which a widow is entitled by virtue of Section two of the Intestates' Estates Act, 1890.In Clause 32, Sub-section (6), the expression "Charges on residue" is defined, for the purposes of the administration of these Clauses, as meaning certain liabilities and interest payable in respect of those liabilities, which comprise, among other things,general legacies (including in the case of an intestacy the sum of one thousand pounds.That sum is the statutory charge on a residuary estate when it is attested in England and Wales, but the sum involved in similar circumstances in Northern Ireland is £500. This Amendment, which deals with Northern Ireland, would bring the Clause into conformity with the law in Northern Ireland.
§ Amendment agreed to.