HC Deb 05 August 1913 vol 56 cc1443-5

(1) The principal Act shall as respects nominations made after the commencement of this Act have effect as if the following provisions were substituted for Section 25 of the principal Act:— (1) A member of a registered society not being under the age of sixteen years may by writing under his hand delivered at or sent to the registered office of the society during the lifetime of such member or made in any book kept thereat, nominate any person or persons to or among whom there shall be transferred at his decease such property in the society as may be his at the time of his decease (whether in shares, loans, or deposits, or otherwise), or so much thereof as is specified in such nomination, if the nomination does not comprise the whole. If on the death of the nominator the amount of his property in the society comprised in. the nomination exceeds one hundred pounds the nomination shall be valid to the extent of the sum of one hundred pounds, but not further or otherwise: Provided that a person so nominated shall not be an officer or servant of the society unless such officer or servant is the husband, wife, father, mother, child, brother, sister, nephew, or niece of the nominator. (2) A nomination so made may be revoked or varied by a subsequent nomination signed and delivered or sent or made as aforesaid or by any similar document in the nature of a revocation or variation under the hand of the nominator so delivered sent or made as aforesaid, but shall not be revocable or variable by the will of the nominator or by any codicil thereto. (3) The society shall keep a book wherein the names of all persons so nominated and all revocations or variations (if any) of such nominations shall be recorded, and the property comprised in any such nomination to an amount not exceeding one hundred pounds shall be payable or transferable to the nominee although the rules of the society declare the shares not to be transferable. (4) The marriage of a member of a society shall operate as a revocation of any nomination made by him before such marriage, provided, that in the event of an officer of a society having transferred any property of a member to a nominee, in ignorance of a marriage contracted subsequent to the date of the nomination, the receipt of the nominee shall be a valid discharge to the society, and the society shall be under no liability to any other person claiming such property.

(2) The principal Act shall as respects nominators dying after the commencement of this Act have effect as if the following provisions Are substituted for Sub-section (1) of Section 213 of the principal Act:—

  1. "(1) On receiving satisfactory proof of the death of a nominator, the committee of the society shall, subject to the limitation on amount herein-before provided, either transfer the property comprised in the nomination in manner directed by the nomination, or pay to every person entitled thereunder the full value of the property given to him, unless the shares comprised in the nomination, if transferred as directed by the nominator, would raise the share capital of any nominee to a sum exceeding three hundred pounds, in which case they shall pay him the value of such excess.
  2. (2) Where a nominee who is nominated under the provisions of this Act is under sixteen years of age, the society may pay the sum nominated to either parent, or to a guardian of the nominee, or to any other person of full age who will undertake to hold the same on trust for the nominee or to apply the same for his benefit and whom the society may think a fit and proper person for the purpose, and the receipt of such parent, guardian, or other person shall be a sufficient discharge to the society for all moneys so paid.

Amendment made: In Sub-section (2) leave out the word "three" ["three hundred pounds"] and insert instead thereof the word "two."—[Mr. Hobhouse.]

Question, "That Clause 9 (Exemption from Stamp Duty) stand part of the Bill," put, and negatived.

Remaining Clauses and Schedules agreed to.

Bill reported; as amended, to be considered to-morrow (Wednesday).