Industrial and Provident Societies Act, 1893

Power of nomination for sums not exceeding one hundred pounds.

25.(1) A member of a registered society, not being under the age of sixteen years, may, by a writing under his hand, delivered at or sent to the registered office of the society during the lifetime of such member, or made in any book kept thereat nominate any person or persons other than an officer or servant of the society (unless such officer or servant is the husband, wife, father, mother, child, brother, sister, nephew, or niece of the nominator) to or among whom his property in the society, whether in shares, loans, or deposits, or so much thereof as is specified in such nomination, if the nomination does not comprise the whole, shall be transferred at his decease, provided the amount credited to him in the books of the society does not then exceed one hundred pounds sterling.

(2) A nomination so made may be revoked or varied by any similar document under the hand of the nominator, delivered sent, or made as aforesaid, but shall not be revocable or variable by the will of the nominator or any codicil thereto.

(3) The society shall keep a book wherein the names of all persons so nominated and of all revocations or variations, if any, of such nominations shall be regularly entered. And the property comprised in any such nomination shall be payable or transferable to the nominees, although the rules of the society declare the shares to be generally not transferable.