Succession Act 1965

FIRST SCHEDULE

Rules as to Application of Assets

Part I

Rules as to payment of debts where the estate is insolvent

[New as to estates administered out of court]

1. The funeral, testamentary and administration expenses have priority.

2. Subject as aforesaid, the same rules shall prevail and be observed as to the respective rights of secured and unsecured creditors and as to debts and liabilities provable and as to the valuation of annuities and future and contingent liabilities, respectively, and as to the priorities of debts and liabilities as may be in force for the time being under the law of bankruptcy with respect to the assets of persons adjudged bankrupt.

3. In the application of the said rules the date of death shall be substituted for the date of adjudication in bankruptcy.

Part II

Order of application of assets where the estate is solvent

[New]

1. Property of the deceased undisposed of by will, subject to the retention thereout of a fund sufficient to meet any pecuniary legacies.

2. Property of the deceased not specifically devised or bequeathed but included (either by a specific or general description) in a residuary gift, subject to the retention out of such property of a fund sufficient to meet any pecuniary legacies, so far as not provided for as aforesaid.

3. Property of the deceased specifically appropriated or devised or bequeathed (either by a specific or general description) for the payment of debts.

4. Property of the deceased charged with, or devised or bequeathed (either by a specific or general description) subject to a charge for, the payment of debts.

5. The fund, if any, retained to meet pecuniary legacies.

6. Property specifically devised or bequeathed, rateably according to value.

7. Property appointed by will under a general power, rateably according to value.

8. The following provisions shall also apply—

(a) The order of application may be varied by the will of the deceased.

(b) This Part of this Schedule does not affect the liability of land to answer the death duty imposed thereon in exoneration of other assets.

Annotations

Modifications (not altering text):

C20

Interpretation of inheritance tax clarified (21.02.2003) by Capital Acquisitions Tax Consolidation Act 2003 (1/2003), s. 113, commenced on enactment. This provision replaced Capital Acquisitions Tax Act 1976, s. 68.

Tax, in relation to certain legislation.

113.(1) Inheritance tax shall not be a duty or a death duty for the purposes of section 9 of the Succession Act, 1965, but it shall be a death duty for the purposes of—

(a) section 34 (3) of that Act;

(b) the definition of pecuniary legacy in section 3 (1) of that Act; and

(c) paragraph 8 of Part II of the First Schedule to that Act.

Editorial Notes:

E19

Previous affecting provision: Capital Acquisitions Tax Act 1976 (8/1976), s. 68(1)(b), repealed (21.02.2003) by Capital Acquisitions Tax Consolidation Act 2003 (1/2003), s. 118(1).