Government Life Annuities Act 1693

III. Contributor to produce Certificate of Nominee's Life, unless Nominee appear;

or may make Oath of Nominee's Life.; Perjury and Forgery of Certificate.; Certificate of Nominee's Absence; Receiving after Nominee's Death.; Penalty.

And to make [X1 the] payment of the annuities more easie to the several contributors upon this and the before recited Act both upon the terms of survivorship and the annuity of fourteen pounds per Centum be it enacted That every contributor upon this or the former Act his or her Executors Administrators or Assigns upon their demanding any halfe yearely or quarterly payment of his her or their respective shares of either of the said funds (unlesse the nominee appeare in person att the said receipt) shall produce a certificate of the life of his her or their respective nominee signed by the Minister and Churchwardens of the Parish where such Nominee shall be then living as by the said recited Act is appointed or otherwise it shall and may be lawfull to and for every Contributor his or her Executors Administrators or Assigns att his her or their Election to make Oath of the truth of his her or their respective Nominees Life upon the day when the said payments shall become due before any one or more Justices of the Peace of the respective County Riding City Town or Place wherein such person att the time of makeing the said Oath shall reside (which Oath hee or they are hereby impowered to administer) and the said Justice or Justices shall make a Certificate thereof for which Oath and Certificate noe fee or reward shall bee required And the said Certificates shall be filed in the said Office of Receipts of the Exchequer And if any person shall be guilty of a false Oath or forgeing any Certificate touching the Premisses and being thereof lawfully convicted hee shall incur the pains and penalties to bee inflicted upon persons who committ wilfull Perjury or Forgery And in case any Nominee shall att the time of such demand bee resident in Scotland or beyond the Seas [X1 and] any one or more of the Barons of the Exchequer for the time being shall certifie that upon proof to him or them made (which proof hee and they is and are hereby authorized and required to take in a summary way) it doth seem probable to him or them that the said Nominee is living (which Certificate is to be given and examinac[i]on made without fee or charge) the said Certificate being filed as aforesaid shall bee a sufficient Warrant for makeing the said Quarterly payment to the respective Contributors or Advancers their Executors Administrators or Assigns And if any person or persons shall receive one or more Quarterly payments upon his her or their Annuity or Annuities for any time beyond the death of his her or their Nominee when the same ought to cease such person or persons shall forfeit treble the value of the money soe by him her or them received The one halfe thereof to their Majesties their Heirs and Successors and the other halfe to him or them that will sue for the same by action suit bill or informac[i]on in which noe essoign protection priveledge or wager of law or more then one imparlance shall bee allowed.

Editorial Information

X1 interlined on the Roll.