Regulation 7 Payment in case of mentally disordered persons

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

reg. 7 Title words substituted by Mental Capacity Act 2005 (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) 2007 Sch. 1 para. 2(3)(a)
reg. 7(1) words substituted by Mental Capacity Act 2005 (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) 2007 Sch. 1 para. 2(3)(b)(i)
reg. 7(1) word substituted by Mental Capacity Act 2005 (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) 2007 Sch. 1 para. 2(3)(b)(ii)
reg. 7(2) words substituted by Mental Capacity Act 2005 (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) 2007 Sch. 1 para. 2(3)(b)(i)
reg. 7(2) word substituted by Mental Capacity Act 2005 (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) 2007 Sch. 1 para. 2(3)(b)(ii)

(1)

An application for payment of the amount repayable in respect of a savings contract shall, where the contributor is a mentally disordered person, be made by his receiver.

(2)

Where a contributor is a mentally disordered person and there is no receiver by whom application for payment may be made, the authority may, if they think fit, pay the amount repayable in respect of the savings contract to any person who satisfies them that he is a proper person to receive payment.