Married Women’s Property Act 1907 (1907 c. 18)

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[F1] S. 1 repealed by Law of Property Act 1925 (c. 20), s. 207, Sch. 7

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[F2] S. 2 repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1969 (c. 52), Sch. Pt. III

3 Married woman entitled to prior estate to be protector of settlement alone.

(1) Where a married woman would, if single, be the protector of a settlement in respect of a prior estate, . . . then she alone shall, in respect of that estate, be the protector of the settlement.

[F3] Words repealed by Law Reform (Married Women and Tortfeasors) Act 1935 (c. 30), Sch. 2

(2) This section applies to disentailing assurances and surrenders made after the thirty-first day of December one thousand eight hundred and eighty-two, and as well before as after the commencement of this Act.

4 †Short title; commencement; construction.

(1) This Act may be cited as the Married Women’s Property Act, 1907.

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[F4] S. 4(2) repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1950 (c. 6)

(3) This Act shall not extend to Scotland.

(4) This Act shall be construed with the Married Women’s Property Acts, 1882 , 1884, and 1893, and those Acts and this Act may be cited together as the Married Women’s Property Acts, 1882 to 1907.

[M1] 1882 c. 75

[M2] 1884 c. 14.

[M3] 1893 c. 63