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21. After regulation 47 (payments due in respect of deceased persons), insert—
47A.—(1) Where it appears to the Committee that a person other than an eligible child is entitled to the payment of benefits under the Scheme but is, by reason of mental disorder or otherwise, incapable of managing his affairs—
(a)the Committee may pay the benefits or any part of them to a person having the care of the person entitled, or such other person as the Committee may determine, to be applied for the benefit of the person entitled as the Committee may direct; and
(b)in so far as the Committee does not pay the benefits in that manner, the Committee may apply them in such manner as the Committee may determine, for the benefit of the person entitled or his beneficiaries.
(2) In this regulation, “eligible child” shall be construed in accordance with regulation 26 (meaning of “eligible child”) of the Benefits Regulations.”.
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