s.9Moneys payable under policy of assurance not to form part of the estate of the insured
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Section 9Part 0 —

Moneys payable under policy of assurance not to form part of the estate of the insured

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A married woman may effect a policy upon her own life or the life of her husband for her own benefit; and the benefit thereof shall enure accordingly.
A policy of assurance effected by any man on his own life, and expressed to be for the benefit of his wife, his children or his wife and children, or any of them, or by any woman on her own life, and expressed to be for the benefit of her husband, her children or her husband and children, or any of them, shall create a trust in favour of the objects therein named; and the moneys payable under any such policy shall not, as long as any object of the trust remains unperformed, form part of the estate of the insured, or be subject to his or her debts: Provided that, if it shall be proved that the policy was effected, and the premiums paid, with intent to defraud the creditors of the insured, they shall be entitled to receive, out of the moneys payable under the policy, a sum equal to the premiums so paid.
The insured may, by the policy or by any memorandum under his or her hand, appoint a trustee or trustees of the moneys payable under the policy and, from time to time, appoint a new trustee or new trustees thereof, and may make provision for the appointment of a new trustee or new trustees thereof, and for the investment of the moneys payable under any such policy.
In default of any such appointment of a trustee such policy, immediately on its being effected, shall vest in the insured, and his or her legal personal representatives, in trust for the purposes aforesaid.
If, at the time of the death of the insured or at any time afterwards, there shall be no trustee or it shall be expedient to appoint a new trustee or new trustees, a trustee or trustees, or a new trustee or new trustees, may be appointed by the Grand Court. The receipt of a trustee or trustees duly appointed, or, in default of notice to the insurance office, the receipt of the legal personal representative of the insured, shall be a discharge to the office for the sum secured by the policy, or for the value thereof, in whole or in part.

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policy of assurancetrustlegal personal representative

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