Industrial and Provident Societies Act, 1893

Probate duty to be paid where the whole estate exceeds one hundred pounds.

28. If elsewhere than in Scotland the whole personal estate, or in Scotland the whole movable estate, of any person entitled to make a nomination under this Act exceeds one hundred pounds sterling, any sum paid under this Act without probate or letters of administration shall, notwithstanding such nomination or payment, be liable to probate duty as part of the amount on which such duty is charged, and the committee, before making any such payment, may require a statutory declaration by the claimant or one of the claimants that the total personal or movable estate of the deceased, including the sum in question, does not, after deductions of debts and funeral expenses, exceed the value of one hundred pounds.