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1958 c.5 (7 & 8 Eliz.2) 18.(1) The provisions of this section and section 19 shall apply to the devolution of any property on the intestacy of a person who dies after the date of the commencement of this Act, or any disposition of property made, whether by instrument inter vivos or by will (including codicil), after that date. (2) Where, at any time after the making of an adoption order, the adopter or the adopted person or any other person dies intestate in respect of any property (other than property which, under a disposition made before the date of the adoption order, is limited in tail or is subject to an entailed interest), that property shall devolve in all respects as if the adopted person were the child of the adopter born in lawful wedlock and were not the child of any other person. (3) In any disposition of property made, whether by instrument inter vivos or by will (including codicil) after the date of an adoption order (a)any reference (whether express or implied) to the child or children of the adopter shall, unless the contrary intention appears, be construed as, or as including, a reference to the adopted person; (b)any reference (whether express or implied) to the child or children of the adopted person's natural parents or either of them shall, unless the contrary intention appears, be construed as not being, or as not including, a reference to the adopted person; and (c)any reference (whether express or implied) to a person related to the adopted person in any degree shall, unless the contrary intention appears, be construed as a reference to the person who would be related to him in that degree if he were the child of the adopter born in lawful wedlock and were not the child of any other person. (4) Where under any disposition any property or any interest in such property is limited (whether subject to any preceding limitation or charge or not) in such a way that it would, apart from this section, devolve (as nearly as the law permits) along with a dignity or title of honour, then, whether or not the disposition contains an express reference to the dignity or title of honour, and whether or not the property or some interest in the property may in some event become severed therefrom, nothing in this section shall operate to sever the property or any interest therein from the dignity, but the property or interest shall devolve in all respects as if this section had not been enacted. (5) The references in this section to an adoption order include references to (a)an order authorising an adoption made under the Adoption of Children Act (Northern Ireland) 1950, or under any enactment repealed by that Act; and (b)an order authorising an adoption made (whether before or after the commencement of this Act) anywhere in Great Britain, the Isle of Man or any of the Channel Islands.
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