{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/debts-deceased-servicemen-etc-act-1893/section-24",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/56-57/5",
  "legislation_title": "Debts (Deceased Servicemen etc) Act 1893",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/debts-deceased-servicemen-etc-act-1893",
  "path": "section/24",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "24",
  "heading": "Application of Act to case of insanity.",
  "text": "Where a person subject to service law law is ascertained in the prescribed manner to be insane, the provisions of this Act shall apply as if he had died at the time of his insanity being so ascertained, subject nevertheless to the prescribed exceptions, and to the following modifications:\n(a) The preferential charges may be paid by the wife, husband or civil partner of the insane person, or by any person who, subject to the prescribed regulations, appears to be a relative of or person undertaking the care of the insane person or of his property:\n(b) The committee of adjustment shall dispose of the surplus in the prescribed manner with a view to its being applied for the benefit of the insane person.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Act substituted (28.3.2009 for specified purposes, 31.10.2009 in so far as not already in force) by Armed Forces Act 2006 (c. 52), s. 383(2), Sch. 16 para. 6; S.I. 2009/812, art. 3(a)(b) (with transitional provisions in S.I. 2009/1059); S.I. 2009/1167, art. 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 24(a) substituted (5.12.2005) by Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33), s. 263(8)(a), Sch. 26 para. 7; S.I. 2005/3175, art. 2(1), Sch. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/56-57/5/section/24",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:31:44.398916+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."
}