Succession (Scotland) Act 2016

15Total relief from forfeiture rule

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(1)Section 2 of the Forfeiture Act 1982 is amended as follows.

(2)In subsection (1), after “modifying” insert “or excluding”.

(3)In subsection (2)—

(a)after “modifying” insert “or excluding”,

(b)after “modified” insert “or excluded”.

(4)In subsection (3), after “modifying” insert “or excluding”.

(5)In subsection (5)—

(a)after “modify” insert “or exclude”,

(b)in paragraph (a), for “(but not all)” substitute “or all”,

(c)in paragraph (b), after “in respect of” insert “all or any”.

(6)In subsection (6), after “section” insert “modifying the effect of the forfeiture rule”.