{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/government-annuities-act-1929/section-61",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/government-annuities-act-1929/section-61.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo5/19-20/29",
  "legislation_title": "Government Annuities Act 1929",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/government-annuities-act-1929",
  "path": "section/61",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "61",
  "heading": "Punishment for fraudulently receiving annuity or insurance.",
  "text": "(1) If any person receives any payment in respect of any savings bank annuity after the death of the person at whose death the annuity is to cease, or receives the amount of any insurance payable at the death of a person before the death of that person, he shall be liable to pay to the Commissioners double the amount of the sum received with interest thereon at the rate of five per cent. per annum from the date of the receipt, recoverable in a county court “ in Northern Ireland or the county court in England and Wales ” or any other competent court.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 61(1) inserted (22.4.2014) by Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22), s. 61(3), Sch. 9 para. 86(2); S.I. 2014/954, art. 2(c) (with art. 3) (with transitional provisions and savings in S.I. 2014/956, arts. 3-11)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Ss. 61(2), 64 repealed by (E.W.S.) Theft Act 1968 (c. 60), Sch. 3 Pt. I and (N.I.) Theft Act (Northern Ireland) 1969 (c. 16), Sch. 3 Pt. I"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/19-20/29/section/61",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:39:35.807672+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."
}