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CurrentPayment where beneficiary incapable
Part 6Miscellaneous
54 Payment where beneficiary incapable
(1)
Where a person to whom a benefit under this Act is payable is, in the opinion of STC, incapable of administering his or her own affairs by reason of illness, imprisonment or any other cause, STC may pay the benefit to some other person to be applied wholly for the care, maintenance, benefit and support of the person to whom, but for this section, the benefit would be payable, or of any person wholly or partly dependent on him or her.
(2)
Any payment made under this section shall be deemed to have been made to the person entitled to the benefit.
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