PART IVADMINISTRATION

CHAPTER IIIPAYMENT OF BENEFITS ETC.

Payments due in respect of deceased persons96

1

If when a person dies the total amount due to his personal representatives under the Scheme (including anything due to him at his death) (“the amount due”) does not exceed the small payments amount, the Committee may pay the whole or part of the amount due from the fund –

a

to his personal representatives; or

b

to the person, or to or among any one or more of any persons, appearing to the Committee to be beneficially entitled to the estate,

without the production of probate or letters of administration of his estate.

2

The small payments amount is the amount specified in any order for the time being in force under section 6 of the Administration of Estates (Small Payments) (Northern Ireland) Act 196732 and applying in relation to his death.

3

Such a payment discharges the Committee from accounting for the amount paid.