The Savings Certificates Regulations 1991

Evidence of identity, etc

30.—(1) The Director of Savings shall be entitled to require evidence to begiven to his satisfaction of the identity of any person or of the titleof any person to any certificates, document or money, or to requireevidence that anything purporting to be done in pursuance of theseRegulations has been duly done, or otherwise with respect to any matterson which the due exercise of his powers or performance of his dutiesunder these Regulations depends, and the Director of Savings may, forthe purpose of obtaining any such evidence, require a statutorydeclaration to be made by any person.

(2) The Director of Savings may accept as conclusive proof of the deathof the holder of a certificate any evidence which establishes to hissatisfaction the fact that the holder has not been heard of for a periodof seven years or upwards, and, for the purposes of this paragraph, theexpression“holder of a certificate” includes any person beneficially interested at any time, whetherabsolutely or contingently, in the personal estate of the deceasedholder of a certificate.