# Debts (Deceased Servicemen etc) Act 1893, Section 23: Application of Act to deserters, felons, &c.


Where a person subject to service law deserts, or is absent without leave for twenty-one days, or, in consequence of a conviction by or before a court of ordinary criminal jurisdiction, ... is imprisoned or detained to serve a sentence of three months or more, ... , the provisions of this Act shall apply as if the person were dead, subject to the following modifications:
(1) The powers of the committee of adjustment shall arise and continue notwithstanding that the preferential charges are paid or secured:
(2) The committee of adjustment shall dispose of the surplus in the prescribed manner, and the same when so disposed of shall be free from all claim on the part of the said person or any one claiming through him.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/56-57/5/section/23 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/debts-deceased-servicemen-etc-act-1893/section-23
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