PART 4Financial redress: redress payments

CHAPTER 4Death of applicant

73Nominated beneficiary’s death etc.

1

This section applies where a nominated beneficiary who has taken over an application dies or, as the case may be, ceases to exist.

2

Where the nominated beneficiary dies or, in the case of a person other than an individual, ceases to exist while the application in relation to which the person is nominated is ongoing, it brings the application to an end.

3

Where an individual is the nominated beneficiary and the individual dies—

a

after accepting an offer of a redress payment in accordance with section 50(1), but

b

before the redress payment is paid,

the redress payment is to be paid to the individual’s estate.

4

For the purpose of this section, the question of whether an application is ongoing is to be determined in accordance with section 66(6) and (7).