{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-compensation-regulations-1974/regulation-36",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1974/1748",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Compensation) Regulations 1974",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-compensation-regulations-1974",
  "path": "regulation/36",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "36",
  "heading": "Payments without proof of title",
  "text": "Where on the death of any person any sum not exceeding £500 is due to or in respect of that person under these regulations the Secretary of State may dispense with proof of the title of the personal representatives of that person and pay that sum to the person, or to or among any one or more of any persons, appearing to the Secretary of State on such evidence as he deems satisfactory to be entitled by law to a beneficial interest therein, or in the case of the illegitimacy of the deceased person or his children to or among such persons as the Secretary of State may think fit, and any person to whom such a payment is made, and not the Secretary of State, shall thereafter be liable to account for any amount so paid.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1974/1748/regulation/36",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:23:08.890011+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."
}