§ 12.45 a.m.
§ Mr. Graham PageI beg to move Amendment No. 22, in page 13, line 4, at end insert:
'(6) In the application of this section to Scotland—This, too, is a tidying-up amendment for Scotland.
- (a) in subsection (2), for the words from "testamentary" to "tenants" there shall be substituted the words
- "(a) a testamentary disposition or any other deed with testamentary effect taking effect on, or
- (b) the law of intestate succession";
- (b) in subsection (3), for the words "by appropriation of it in or towards" there shall be substituted the words "in satisfaction or in partial";
- (c) subsections (4) and (5) shall be omitted'.
Subsections (2) to (5) of Clause 11 define what is meant by "acquiring by inheritance" for the purposes of the clause. They cover the obvious case of acquisition by testamentary disposition or will and the words,
or any other deed with testamentary effectin paragraph (a) of the amendment cover analogous cases which in England and Wales are covered by the words,or the right of survivorship between joint tenantsin subsections (2), (4) and (5).875 Paragraph (b) of the amendment merely adopts the appropriate Scottish wording for the purposes in question.
§ Amendment agreed to.