REGIMENTAL DEBTS ACT 1893 - SECT 8 Disposal of residue by Secretary of State.

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REGIMENTAL DEBTS ACT 1893 - SECT 8

Disposal of residue by Secretary of State.

8. The Secretary of State, on being informed of the death of a person subject
to military law, shall proceed with all reasonable speed as follows:

(1)He shall cause to be ascertained the total amount to the credit of the
deceased, including any surplus or part of a surplus remitted by a paymaster
as mentioned in this Act, and all arrears of pay, batta, grants, and other
allowances in the nature thereof; which total amount so ascertained is in
this Act referred to as the residue;

(2)If he has notice of a representative of the deceased, he shall pay the
residue to that representative;

(3)He may, and if it is so prescribed shall, before such payment, publish the
prescribed notice stating the amount of the residue and such other particulars
respecting the deceased and his property as may seem fit, and also the mode in
which any application respecting the residue is to be made to the Secretary of
State. Provided that the Secretary of State may pay out of any money in his
hands to the credit of the deceased any preferential charges appearing to him
to have been left unpaid by the committee of adjustment.

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REGIMENTAL DEBTS ACT 1893 - SECT 8