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This version of this statute is extracted from the UK Statute Law Database (SLD). It is not necessarily in the form in which it was originally enacted but is a revised version, which means that any subsequent amendments to the text and other effects are incorporated with annotations.
An Act to render inoperative any restriction upon anticipation or alienation attached to the enjoyment of property by a woman.
[16th December 1949]
C1Words of enactment omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1948 (c. 62), s. 3
(1)No restriction upon anticipation or alienation attached, or purported to be attached, to the enjoyment of any property by a woman which could not have been attached to the enjoyment of that property by a man shall be of any effect after the passing of this Act.
(2)The preceding subsection shall have effect whatever is the date of the passing, execution or coming into operation of the Act or instrument containing the provision by virtue of which the restriction was attached or purported to be attached, . . . F1
(3). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F2
(4). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F3
F1Words repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1975 (c. 10), s. 1(1), Sch. Pt. VI
F2S. 1(3) repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1969 (c. 52), Sch. Pt. III
F3S. 1(4) repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1953 (2 & 3 Eliz. 2 c. 5)
(1)This Act may be cited as the Married Women (Restraint upon Anticipation) Act, 1949.
(2)This Act shall not extend to Scotland or to Northern Ireland.
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F1Sch. 1 repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1969 (c. 52), Sch. Pt. III
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F1
F1Sch. 2 repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1953 (2 & 3 Eliz. 2 c. 5)
Married Women (Restraint upon Anticipation) Act 1949