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338D PDFTitle:SMALL CLAIMS TRIBUNAL (SUITORS' FUNDS) RULESGazette Number:
Rule:7Heading:Payment out on death of person entitledVersion Date:30/06/1997

Where the registrar is satisfied that any person entitled under rule 6 to payment out of funds has died, the registrar may pay out such funds (or any portion thereof remaining unpaid at the date of the death of the deceased) as follows-

        (a) the registrar may pay out such funds to the legal personal representatives of the deceased or, if it appears that any such personal representative had died, to the survivor or survivors of them;
        (b) where it appears to the registrar that the deceased died intestate having assets not exceeding the value of $5000 including the amount of such funds, and if administration has not been granted in respect of his estate, the registrar may pay out such funds to the person who (being the spouse, child, father, mother, brother or sister of the deceased) would have the prior right to a grant of administration of the estate, upon a declaration by such person in Form 2 in the Schedule hereto.