1 Increase in amounts disposable on death without representation.
In the transferred provisions listed in Schedule 1, of which—
(a) those listed in Part I are provisions of Acts authorising the disposal of property on death, without the necessity for probate or other proof of title, to persons appearing to be beneficially entitled thereto, to relatives of the deceased or to other persons described in the Acts, but subject to a limit of £100;
(b) those listed in Part II are provisions of Acts giving power to make regulations containing provisions corresponding to the provisions described in paragraph ( a); and
(c) those listed in Part III are regulations such as are described in paragraph ( b) and instruments containing corresponding provisions made under other Acts and containing a limit which is, in some cases, £100 and, in other cases, £200;
the said limit shall in each case be £500 instead of the limit specified in the transferred provision; and for references to the limits of £100 or, as the case may be, £200 in those transferred provisions there shall accordingly be substituted references to £500.
Mod. by SR 2004/68
S. 1 modified (8.12.2020) by The Administration of Estates (Small Payments) (Increase of Limit) Order (Northern Ireland) 2020 (S.R. 2020/280), arts. 1, 2(a)
Increased to £5,000 for deaths after 31.3.1985, SR 1985/9