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37. Joint accounts and trustees.

(1) Where -

(a) an eligible investor is a trustee making an application for payment under section 34 on behalf of a trust, and

(b) any beneficiary of the trust concerned is beneficially entitled against the trustees to any identifiable part of the amount so claimed, either absolutely or jointly with a fixed number of other beneficiaries,

then, the net loss in respect of which the trustee makes an application for payment under section 34 shall be treated, but only for the purpose of ascertaining a compensatable loss -

(i) where the beneficiary is entitled absolutely, as if legal ownership of the money and investment instruments which comprise the net loss had passed to the beneficiary,

(ii) where the beneficiary is entitled jointly with a number of other beneficiaries, as if the money and investment instruments which comprise the net loss were joint investment business maintained by the beneficiaries and legal and joint ownership had passed to the beneficiaries concerned.

(2) Where pers

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