sec.18Payments from the fund in special circumstances

sec.18 Payments from the fund in special circumstances

Upon application made in writing for the payment from the fund of a benefit in respect of a funeral benefit business or a surrender value of contributions paid to any such business or a refund, in whole or in part, of contributions paid to any such business, the registrar, if satisfied— that the application is made in good faith by the applicant; and that a payment of the type applied for would, in the circumstances, be just; may make to the applicant, or to such other person as to the registrar may seem proper, a payment from the fund of such amount as the registrar may deem just notwithstanding any provision of this Act or of the registered rules of the business concerned or of the contract under which the contributions were paid and notwithstanding that no provision of this Act or of such registered rules or of such contract authorises or envisages such a payment to any person or to the person to whom the registrar proposes to make payment. s 18 amd 2013 No. 25 s 38

• (a) that the application is made in good faith by the applicant; and
• (b) that a payment of the type applied for would, in the circumstances, be just;