{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-savings-stock-register-regulations-1976/regulation-26",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-savings-stock-register-regulations-1976/regulation-26.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1976/2012",
  "legislation_title": "The National Savings Stock Register Regulations 1976",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-savings-stock-register-regulations-1976",
  "path": "regulation/26",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": "Joint holders of Stock",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the provisions of these Regulations, an application with respect to stock registered in the names of two or more persons as joint holders shall be made by all those persons or, in the case of the death of one or more of them, by the survivors.\n(2) Where stock is registered in the name of two or more persons as joint holders, the Director of Savings may, unless other arrangements with respect to the payment of dividends have been made in accordance with these Regulations, pay any dividends thereon to the holder whose name appears first in the register.\n(3) A receipt given for a dividend by any one of two or more joint holders of stock shall, unless notice in writing to the contrary has been received by the Director of Savings from any other joint holder thereof, be a full discharge to the Treasury and to the Director of Savings for the payment of that dividend.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2012/1877",
      "affecting_title": "The National Savings Stock Register (Amendment) Regulations 2012"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1976/2012/regulation/26",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:14:04.120867+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."
}