{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/loan-societies-act-1840-repealed-19111998/section-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/loan-societies-act-1840-repealed-19111998/section-11.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/3-4/110",
  "legislation_title": "Loan Societies Act 1840 (repealed 19.11.1998)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/loan-societies-act-1840-repealed-19111998",
  "path": "section/11",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Sums under 50l. deposited in any loan fund society payable without probate to the representative of any deceased debenture holder.",
  "text": "In case any debenture holder, depositor, or other claimant, entitled to receive any sum not exceeding £5,000 out of the funds of any such loan society, shall die, it shall be lawful for the trustees or trustee thereof, from and after the expiration of three calendar months after the death of such debenture holder, depositor or other claimant, if they shall be satisfied that no will of the deceased has been or will be proved , and that no letters of administration of the goods, chattels, rights, and credits of such deceased person have or will be taken out, to pay the same to any person who shall appear to the said trustees or trustee to be the person or one of the persons entitled. . . to the effects of the deceased. . . , although no letters of administration shall have been taken out and no probate of any will has been granted ; and the payment of any such sum of money shall be valid and effectual with respect to any demand of any other person as next of kin of such deceased. . . , or as the lawful representative of such person, against the funds of such society, or against the trustee, treasurer, or officers thereof; but nevertheless such next of kin or representatives shall have remedy for such money so paid as aforesaid against the person who shall have received the same.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "“£5,000” substituted by virtue of Administration of Estates (Small Payments) Act 1965 (c. 32, SIF 116:1), ss. 1(1), 6, Sch. 1 Pt. I and S.I. 1984/539, art. 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words substituted by Administration of Estates (Small Payments) Act 1965 (c. 32), Sch. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words repealed by Administration of Estates (Small Payments) Act 1965 (c. 32), Sch. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words inserted by Administration of Estates (Small Payments) Act 1965 (c. 32), Sch. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Unreliable marginal note."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Power to amend s. 11 conferred by Administration of Estates (Small Payments) Act 1965 (c. 32), ss. 1(1)(a), 6(1)(a), Sch. 1 Pt. I"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/3-4/110/section/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:40:26.082581+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."
}