Death payment with certificate

(1) The trustees or other officers of a friendly society shall not pay any sum of money which has been insured and become payable on the death of any member, or his wife or child, unless the party applying for it produces and delivers to such trustees or officer a certificate of that death issued under the Registration of Births and Deaths Act, Cap.157, unless from the nature of the circumstances, it is impossible to procure such certificate. (2) Subsection (1) of this section, shall not apply to deaths at sea, or to a death by any accident where the body cannot be found, or to any death certified by a coroner to be the subject of a pending inquest or inquiry.