The National Savings Regulations 2015

CHAPTER 2 Identity, etc.

Evidence of identity

46.—(1) The Director of Savings may require satisfactory evidence of the following—

(a) the identity of a person;

(b) the title of a person to a deposit, or to money;

(c) the authority of a person to apply to withdraw or transfer a deposit;

(d) that anything purporting to have been done under these Regulations has been done; or

(e) anything else on which the exercise of the Director of Saving’s powers or performance of duties under these Regulations depends,

and the Director of Savings may for the purpose of obtaining the evidence require a statutory declaration to be made.

(2) The Director of Savings may accept as conclusive proof of the death of a depositor any evidence which establishes to the Director of Savings’ satisfaction that the depositor has not been heard of for a period of seven years or more (and, for the purposes of this paragraph, “depositor” includes any person beneficially interested at any time, whether absolutely or contingently, in the personal estate of the deceased).

Persons unable to write

47.  Where a document is required by the Director of Savings or by these Regulations to be signed by a person and that person is unable to write, it is sufficient for the document to be marked by that person in the presence of a witness in a manner required by the Director of Savings.

Persons under disability

48.  If any depositor is a person who lacks capacity or is under legal disability for any reason other than age, anything which under these Regulations is required or authorised to be done by or to that person is to be done by or to a deputy or other person having power in law to administer the estate.