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Section 24 Provision for small payments on death.C1

If any member of a registered society dies and at his death his property in the society (whether in shares, loans or deposits or otherwise) does not exceed in the whole five hundred poundsF1 (or such higher amount as may be substituted under section 6(1) of the Administration of Estates (Small Payments) Act (Northern Ireland) 1967 1967 c.5) and is not the subject of any nomination under section 22, then the committee of the society may, without letters of administration or probate of any will, distribute that property among such persons as appear to the committee on such evidence as it deems satisfactory to be entitled by law to receive it.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Increased to £5,000 for deaths after 31.3.1985, SR 1985/9

Modifications

C1

S. 24 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)(i)

Notes on the whole Act

Textual amendments

F1

Act: "The Industrial and Provident Societies (N.I.) Act 1969 may be cited as The Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act (N.I.) 1969" (6.4.2018) by virtue of Credit Unions and Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act (NorthernIreland) 2016 (c. 16), ss. 8(2), 17(2) (with Sch. 2 paras. 2, 3); S.R. 2017/217, art. 2(b)

F2

1981 NI 3