Law applicable on death
16. Where, in the event of the death of a person to whom the terms of an agreement applied or who was the holder of a certificate or on whose behalf an agreement was entered into, any repayment under the agreement or in respect of the certificate made under these Regulations is made in accordance with the law of the place where that person resided at the date of his death, that payment shall, unless notice in writing to the effect that he was, at that date, domiciled in some other place has been received by the Director of Savings before the payment was made, be deemed for the purposes of these Regulations to have been duly made.