The National Savings Stock Register Regulations 1976

Dividends

21.—(1) The balance for a dividend on stock may be struck on such date as the Director of Savings may direct, not being more than 37 days before the date on which the dividend is payable, and any person who is, on the day on which the balance is struck, registered as the holder of any stock shall, as between himself and any transferee of the stock, be entitled to the then current dividend thereon.

(2) The Director of Savings may arrange for the payment of dividends to any person authorised to receive payment in respect thereof, but, except where arrangements have been made for the payment of dividends in some other manner, dividends on stock shall, subject to the provisions of these Regulations, be sent by post to the holder at the address which for the time being appears on the register as his address:

Provided that the Director of Savings may, in any case in which he thinks fit, defer payment of the dividend on any stock until he has received authority with respect thereto from the holder.

(3) Where the holder of any stock desires that dividends accruing thereon should, as they become due, be paid to some person other than himself, or to a banker or other agent on his behalf, or to the credit of an account at a savings bank, he may at any time, subject as hereinafter provided, make an application in that behalf to the Director of Savings:

Provided that any such application must be made in writing in the approved form, and, if received after the balance for the dividends to which it relates has been struck, shall take effect only in relation to the next dividend thereafter becoming payable.

(4) On proof of the death of the holder of any stock the Director of Savings may pay any dividends thereafter becoming payable on the stock to the executor or administrator whose name appears first in the probate or letters of administration.