CO129-567-10 Companies Amendment Ordinance- draft bill 15-9-1938 - 28-9-1938 — Page 108

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Application to Guernsey, Alderney and Sark.

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(2) Expressions referring to the Committee of the Estate of a person of unsound mind shall be deemed to include the curator or the Procureur-General of a person interdicted according to the law of Jersey. (3) Expressions referring to the Probate of the Will or to Letters of Administration to the estate and effects of a deceased depositor shall, in the case of a depositor domiciled in Jersey, be deemed to refer to the Probate or to Letters of Administration granted according to the law of Jersey.

(4) The deposits of any deceased depositor who was at the time of his death domiciled in Jersey shall be deemed to be personal estate of such depositor in Jersey, and the Postmaster-General shall not be required to see to the payment of probate duty or of estate, legacy, or succession duty in respect of such deposits. (5) Expressions referring to deposits of married women are to take effect, in the case of depositors domiciled in Jersey, only so far as is consistent with the law of Jersey.

(6) A nomination of a depositor domiciled in Jersey of any person to receive any sum due to such depositor at his decease shall take effect only as to that portion of his personal estate over which he has power of testamentary disposition according to the law of Jersey, but any payment made to the nominee without notice of the depositor's incapacity to dispose of the whole or any portion of the estate nominated shall be a valid payment and the receipt of the nominee shall be a good discharge to the Postmaster-General.

(7) Expressions referring to the Solicitor to the Treasury shall, in the case of a depositor domiciled in Jersey, be deemed to refer to the Viscount or Sheriff of Jersey.

97. These Regulations shall apply to the Islands of Guernsey, Alderney, and Sark, with the following modifications, subject nevertheless to the provisions of Regulation 80 (that is to say) -

(1) Expressions referring to the persons beneficially entitled to the personal estate of a deceased depositor ac- cording to the Statutes of Distribution, shall, in the case of a depositor domiciled at the date of death in Guernsey, Alderney, or Sark, be deemed to refer to the persons entitled to share in the distribution of the movable or personal estate of such depositor according to the laws in force in such Islands resper- tively.

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(2) Expressions referring to the Committee of the Estate of a person of unsound mind shall be deemed to include the curator bonis of a person interdicted according to the laws of the Islands of Guernsey. Alderney, or Sark respectively.

(3) Expressions referring to the Probate of the Will or to Letters of Administration to the estate and effects of a deceased depositor, shall, in the case of a depositor domiciled in Guernsey, Alderney, or Sark, be deemed to refer to the Probate or to Letters of Adminis- tration granted according to the laws of the Island of Guernsey.

(4) Expressions referring to deposits of married women are to take effect, in the case of depositors domiciled in Guernsey, Alderney, or Sark, only so far as is consistent with the laws in force in such Islands respectively.

(5) The deposits of any deceased depositor who was at the time of his death domiciled in Guernsey, Alderney, or Sark shall be deemed to be personal estate of such depositor in Guernsey, Alderney, or Sark, and the Postmaster-General shall not be required to see to the payment of probate duty or of estate, legacy, or succession duty in respect of such deposits.

(6) A nomination of a depositor domiciled in Guernsey, Alderney, or Sark of any person to receive any sum due to such depositor at his decease shall take effect only as to that portion of his personal estate over which he has power of testamentary disposition according to the laws of the Islands of Guernsey, Alderney, and Sark, respectively, but any payment made to the nominee without notice of the depositor's incapacity to dispose of the whole or any portion of the estate nominated shall be a valid payment and the receipt of the nominee shall be a good discharge to the Postmaster-General.

(7) The receipt of the executor or administrator named in the Probate of the Will or Administration of the estate and effects of a deceased depositor granted by the Ecclesiastical Court of the Island of Guernsey shall be a good discharge to the Postmaster-General for any sum payable in respect of the deposits of any deceased depositor domiciled in the Islands of Guernsey, Alderney, or Sark.

(8) Expressions referring to the Solicitor to the Treasury shall. in the case of a depositor domiciled in the

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