55Payment of grants

55 Payment of grants

(1) A grant to a sole applicant shall be paid to the applicant or, if the applicant so requests in writing and the Secretary approves, to another person nominated by the applicant. (2) Subject to subsections (3) and (4), a grant to joint applicants shall be paid to the joint applicants or, if the joint applicants so request in writing and the Secretary approves, to a person or persons nominated by the joint applicants. (3) Where a joint applicant has died before the payment of a grant, subsection (2) applies in relation to the payment of the grant as if the reference in that subsection to the joint applicants did not include a reference to the deceased joint applicant. (4) Where, for any reason, the Secretary considers that it is not practicable to pay a grant to all the joint applicants in respect of an application, he may pay the grant to such of those joint applicants as he considers appropriate. (5) A grant paid in accordance with a request under subsection (1) to a person other than the sole applicant or paid under subsection (2) or (4) otherwise than to all the joint applicants in respect of an application shall, for the purposes of this Act, be deemed to have been paid to the sole applicant, or to all the joint applicants, as the case may be.