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Regulation 52 Payments due in respect of deceased personsI1

England, Wales and Scotland Not yet in force

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(1)

Paragraph (2) applies if, when a person dies, the total amount due to his personal representatives under the Scheme (including anything due to him at his death) (“the amount due”) does not exceed the amount specified in any order for the time being in force under section 6 of the Administration of Estates (Small Payments) Act 1965f1 and applying in relation to his death.

(2)

The appropriate administering authority may pay the whole or part of the amount due from its pension fund to—

(a)

his personal representatives, or

(b)

any person or persons appearing to the authority to be beneficially entitled to the estate,

without the production of probate or letters of administration of his estate.

(3)

Such a payment discharges that authority from accounting for the amount paid.

Annotations

Commencement

I1

Reg. 52 in force at 1.4.2008, see reg. 1(1)

Footnotes

f1

1965 c.32.