# The Foreign Compensation Commission (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) Rules Approval Instrument 1987, Paragraph 5: Estates of deceased persons


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–
(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
(b) is named as an executor in the last will of the deceased person; or
(c) appears to the Commission to be the widower, widow, child, grandchild, parent, brother or sister of the deceased person:
Provided that–
(i) the Commission shall not accept more than one application on behalf of the same estate;
(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;
(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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/143/schedule/paragraph/5 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/foreign-compensation-commission-union-of-soviet-socialist-republics-rules-approval-instrument-1987/schedule/paragraph-5
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