A society or branch, whether registered or unregistered, shall not insure or pay on the death of a child under the ages hereinafter specified any sum of money which exceeds or which, when added to any amount payable on the death of that child by any other society or branch or by any trade union or industrial assurance company exceeds, the amounts hereinafter specified; that is to say:—
(a)In the case of a child under three years of age, six pounds;
(b)In the case of a child under six years of age, ten pounds;
(c)In the case of a child under ten years of age, fifteen pounds.]
Textual Amendments
F1S. 62 substituted by Friendly Societies Act 1924 (c. 11), s. 2(1)
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Ss. 62 and 64-67 extended to industrial assurance companies by Industrial Assurance Act 1923 (c. 8), s. 4(1); repealed except as they apply to industrial assurance companies by Friendly Societies Act 1974 (c. 46), Sch. 11
C2S. 62 superseded by Industrial Assurance and Friendly Societies Act 1948 (c. 39), s. 6(1): ibid., s. 6(2)
Textual Amendments
(1)Where application is made for a certificate of the death of a child for the purpose of obtaining a sum of money from a society or branch, the name of the society or branch, and the sum sought to be obtained therefrom shall be stated to the registrar of deaths.
(2)The registrar of deaths shall write on or at the foot of the certificate the words “to be produced to the society or branch (naming the same) said to be liable for payment of the sum ofl. (stating the same).”
(3)All certificates of the same death shall be numbered in consecutive order.
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C3Ss. 62 and 64-67 extended to industrial assurance companies by Industrial Assurance Act 1923 (c. 8), s. 4(1); repealed except as they apply to industrial assurance companies by Friendly Societies Act 1974 (c. 46), Sch. 11
C4S. 64 repealed with saving by Industrial Assurance and Friendly Societies Act 1948 (c. 39), s. 6(2); excluded by Friendly Societies Act 1955 (4 & 5 Eliz. 2 c. 19), s. 3(2)
C5Ss. 63-66 applied (E.W.S.) (16.10.1992) by Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 (c. 52), ss. 19(1)(b), 302
(1)A registrar of deaths shall not give any one or more certificates of death for the payment in the whole of any sum of money exceeding six pounds on the death of a child under [F3three years] or for the payment in the whole of a sum exceeding ten pounds on the death of a child under [F3six years][F4or for the payment in the whole of a sum exceeding fifteen pounds on the death of a child under ten years.]
(2)A registrar of deaths shall not grant any such certificate unless the cause of death has been previously entered in the register of deaths on the certificate of a coroner or of a registered medical practitioner who attended the deceased child during its last illness, or except upon the production of a certificate of the probable cause of death under the hand of a registered medical practitioner, or of other satisfactory evidence thereof.
Textual Amendments
F3Words substituted by Friendly Societies Act 1924 (c. 11), s. 2(2)
F4Words inserted by Friendly Societies Act 1924 (c. 11), s. 2(2)
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C6Ss. 62 and 64-67 extended to industrial assurance companies by Industrial Assurance Act 1923 (c. 8), s. 4(1); repealed except as they apply to industrial assurance companies by Friendly Societies Act 1974 (c. 46), Sch. 11
C7S. 65 repealed with saving by Industrial Assurance and Friendly Societies Act 1948 (c. 39), s. 6(2); excluded by Friendly Societies Act 1955 (4 & 5 Eliz. 2 c. 19), s. 3(2)
C8Ss. 63-66 applied (E.W.S.) (16.10.1992) by Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 (c. 52), ss. 19(1)(b), 302
A society or branch, whether registered or unregistered, to which is produced a certificate of the death of a child which does not purport to be the first shall, before paying any money thereon, inquire whether any and what sums of money have been paid on the same death by any other society or branch.
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C9Ss. 62 and 64-67 extended to industrial assurance companies by Industrial Assurance Act 1923 (c. 8), s. 4(1); repealed except as they apply to industrial assurance companies by Friendly Societies Act 1974 (c. 46), Sch. 11
C10S. 66 repealed with saving by Industrial Assurance and Friendly Societies Act 1948 (c. 39), s. 6(2); excluded by Friendly Societies Act 1955 (4 & 5 Eliz. 2 c. 19), s. 3(2)
C11Ss. 63-66 applied (E.W.S.) (16.10.1992) by Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 (c. 52), ss. 19(1)(b), 302
Nothing in this Act respecting payments on the death of children shall apply to insurances on the lives of children of any age, where the person insuring has an interest in the life of the person insured.
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C12Ss. 62 and 64-67 extended to industrial assurance companies by Industrial Assurance Act 1923 (c. 8), s. 4(1); repealed except as they apply to industrial assurance companies by Friendly Societies Act 1974 (c. 46), Sch. 11
Textual Amendments
Textual Amendments
F6S. 107, Sch. 3 repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1908 (c. 49)