{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parliamentary-pensions-consolidation-and-amendment-regulations-1993/regulation-R2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parliamentary-pensions-consolidation-and-amendment-regulations-1993/regulation-R2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1993/3253",
  "legislation_title": "The Parliamentary Pensions (Consolidation and Amendment) Regulations 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parliamentary-pensions-consolidation-and-amendment-regulations-1993",
  "path": "regulation/R2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "R2",
  "heading": "Payments due to deceased persons",
  "text": "(1) Where on the death of any person there is due to the deceased or his personal representatives from the Trustees a sum which (if any part of it due by way of interest is disregarded) does not exceed the amount of the limit for the time being specified by virtue of orders made from time to time under section 6 of the Administration of Estates (Small Payments) Act 1965, probate or other proof of the title of the personal representatives of the deceased may be dispensed with, and the Trustees may pay the whole or any part of that sum to those representatives or to the person, or to or among any one or more of any persons, appearing to the Trustees to be beneficially entitled to the personal or movable estate of the deceased.\n(2) Any person to whom a payment is made under the preceding paragraph, and not the Trustees, shall thereafter be liable to account for the amount paid to him under that paragraph.\n(3) If the Trustees receive notice in writing of any claim against the estate of the deceased at any time before they have made a full payment under paragraph (1) above, then, except where the sum to be paid appears to them to be bona vacantia, they shall not make any, or (as the case may be) any further, payment under that paragraph to any person other than the personal representatives of the deceased until the claim is satisfied or withdrawn.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1965 c. 32. Relevant amendments were made to Section 6 by the Parliamentary and other Pensions Act 1972 (c. 48), section 24(4) and by the Parliamentary and other Pensions Act 1987 (c. 45), section 6(2) and Schedule 4."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "mod",
      "affecting": "uksi/1994/1662",
      "affecting_title": "The European Parliamentary (United Kingdom Representatives) Pensions (Consolidation and Amendment) Order 1994"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/3253/regulation/R2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:43:34.947939+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."
}