Rights of Owners of Policies
31Saving for certain policies issued before 3rd December 1909
No policy effected before the third day of December, nineteen hundred and nine, with a collecting society or an industrial assurance company shall be deemed to be void by reason only that—
a
the person effecting the policy had not, at the time the policy was effected, an insurable interest in the life of the person upon whose life the policy is taken out; or
b
the name of the person interested, or for whose benefit or on whose account the policy was effected, was not inserted in the policy ; or
c
the assurance was not one authorised by the Acts relating to friendly societies ;
if the policy was effected by or on account of a person who had at the time a bona fide expectation that he would incur expenses in connection with the death or funeral of the person whose life is insured, and if the sum assured is not unreasonable for the purpose of covering those expenses, and any such policy shall enure for the benefit of the person for whose benefit it was effected or his assigns.