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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/savings-contracts-regulations-1969/regulation-7",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1969/1342",
  "legislation_title": "The Savings Contracts Regulations 1969",
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  "path": "regulation/7",
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  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Payment in case of mentally disordered persons",
  "text": "(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.\n(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.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1969/1342/regulation/7",
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  "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."
}