National Debt Act, 1870

Payment of unclaimed dividends to National Debt Commissioners.

61. Where any dividend accrued due on any sum of stock is not claimed for ten years before the last day on which a dividend thereon becomes payable, the dividend so unclaimed, and all dividends subsequently accrued due in respect of the same sum of stock and unclaimed, shall be paid to the National Debt Commissioners.

All such dividends shall be held and dealt with in like manner, as nearly as may be, as stock transferred to those Commissioners under this part of this Act, or the dividends accruing thereon after the transfer (as the case requires); and this part of this Act shall accordingly have effect in relation thereto and to the investment and payment of and claims to the same, as if the foregoing provisions of this part of this Act were repeated and in terms made applicable thereto respectively.