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As published
68 Devolution of sums due where no nomination.
(1) If any member of a registered society or branch entitled from the funds thereof to a sum not exceeding £5,000dies without having made any nomination thereof then subsisting, the society or branch may, without letters of administration or probate of any will or, in Scotland, without any grant of confirmation, distribute the sum among such persons as appear to the committee, upon such evidence as they may deem satisfactory, to be entitled by law to receive that sum.
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(3) Where at the time of his death a member of a registered friendly society or branch is entitled from the funds thereof to a sum which exceeds £5,000but would not exceed that amount if any such increase as is mentioned in section 64(2)(c) above were disregarded, subsection (1) above shall apply to the whole of that sum, notwithstanding that it exceeds £5,000, ...
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68 Devolution of sums due where no nomination.
(1) If any member of a registered society or branch entitled from the funds thereof to a sum not exceeding £5,000dies without having made any nomination thereof then subsisting, the society or branch may, without letters of administration or probate of any will or, in Scotland, without any grant of confirmation, distribute the sum among such persons as appear to the committee, upon such evidence as they may deem satisfactory, to be entitled by law to receive that sum.
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(3) Where at the time of his death a member of a registered friendly society or branch is entitled from the funds thereof to a sum which exceeds £5,000but would not exceed that amount if any such increase as is mentioned in section 64(2)(c) above were disregarded, subsection (1) above shall apply to the whole of that sum, notwithstanding that it exceeds £5,000, ...
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