# Debts (Deceased Servicemen etc) Act 1893, Section 8: Disposal of residue by Secretary of State.


The Secretary of State, on being informed of the death of a person subject to service law, shall proceed with all reasonable speed as follows:
(1) He shall cause to be ascertained the total amount to the credit of the deceased, including any surplus or part of a surplus remitted by a paymaster as mentioned in this Act, and all arrears of pay, batta, grants, and other allowances in the nature thereof; which total amount so ascertained is in this Act referred to as the residue;
(2) If he has notice of a representative of the deceased, he shall pay the residue to that representative;
(3) He may, and if it so prescribed shall, before such payment, publish the prescribed notice stating the amount of the residue and such other particulars respecting the deceased and his property as may seem fit, and also the mode in which any application respecting the residue is to be made to the Secretary of State. Provided that the Secretary of State may pay out of any money in his hands to the credit of the deceased any preferential charges appearing to him to have been left unpaid by the committee of adjustment.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/56-57/5/section/8 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/debts-deceased-servicemen-etc-act-1893/section-8
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