{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foreign-compensation-commission-union-of-soviet-socialist-republics-rules-approval-instrument-1987/schedule/paragraph-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foreign-compensation-commission-union-of-soviet-socialist-republics-rules-approval-instrument-1987/schedule/paragraph-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/143",
  "legislation_title": "The Foreign Compensation Commission (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) Rules Approval Instrument 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foreign-compensation-commission-union-of-soviet-socialist-republics-rules-approval-instrument-1987",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Estates of deceased persons",
  "text": "Where a person has died who was qualified to make an application under the Order, an application may be made in respect of a claim on behalf of his estate notwithstanding that there is no personal representative, by any person who–\n(a) has taken out a grant of probate or administration in respect of that estate in any part of the Commonwealth other than the United Kingdom; or\n(b) is named as an executor in the last will of the deceased person; or\n(c) appears to the Commission to be the widower, widow, child, grandchild, parent, brother or sister of the deceased person:\nProvided that–\n(i) the Commission shall not accept more than one application on behalf of the same estate;\n(ii) the Commission may at any time as regards any applicant require a grant of probate or administration to be obtained in the United Kingdom and may set a time limit within which such grant of probate or administration shall be obtained and produced to the Commission;\n(iii) upon the obtaining of such a grant the person to whom it is made, if not already an applicant, shall be substituted as applicant by order of the Commission on his signing all appropriate forms.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/143/schedule/paragraph/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:33:19.991214+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."
}