{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/colonial-stock-act-1877-repealed-19111998/section-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/colonial-stock-act-1877-repealed-19111998/section-6.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/40-41/59",
  "legislation_title": "Colonial Stock Act 1877 (repealed 19.11.1998)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/colonial-stock-act-1877-repealed-19111998",
  "path": "section/6",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Dividends in case of infancy, &c., of a joint stockholder.",
  "text": "Where colonial stock to which this Act applies is standing in the name of an infant or person of unsound mind jointly with any person not under legal disability, a letter of attorney for the receipt of the dividends on the stock shall be sufficient authority in that behalf, if given under the hand and seal of the person not under disability, and attested.\nThe registrar, before acting on the letter of attorney, may require proof to his satisfaction of the alleged infancy or unsoundness of mind, by declaration of competent persons made under the Statutory Declarations Act 1835 or in such other manner as he may reasonably require.\n(2) This section shall have effect in relation to Scotland as if for the words from “given” to “attested” there were substituted the words “subscribed by the person not under disability in accordance with section 7 of the Requirements of Writing (Scotland) Act 1995.”.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 6(2) added (S.) (1.8.1995) by 1995 c. 7, ss. 14(1), 15(2), Sch. 4 para. 25 (with ss. 9(3)(5)(7), 13, 14(3))"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1835 c. 62"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 6 excluded by Mental Health Act 1959 (c. 72) s. 121, Sch. 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 6 excluded by Mental Health Act 1983 (c.20, SIF 85), s. 113, Sch. 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/40-41/59/section/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:46:02.828190+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}