# The Local Government Pension Scheme (Administration) (Scotland) Regulations 2008, Regulation 48: Payments due in respect of deceased persons

Extent: S
Status: prospective

(1) Paragraph (2) applies if, when a person dies, the total amount due to the person’s executors under the Scheme (including anything due to the person at the person’s 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 1965 and applying in relation to the person’s death.
(2) The appropriate administering authority may pay the whole or part of the amount due from its pension fund to–
(a) the person’s executors; or
(b) any person or persons appearing to the authority to be beneficially entitled to the estate,
without the production of confirmation, probate or letters of administration of the person’s estate.
(3) Such a payment discharges that authority from accounting for the amount paid.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2008/228/regulation/48 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-administration-scotland-regulations-2008/regulation-48
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