Section 25: Right of member to nominate recipients of sums payable on death.

(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, a member of a trade union may, as regards any money payable by the union on his death, nominate any person (except one who is disiqualified under subsection (4) of this section) as the person to whom that money is to be paid on the death of the nominator;and on receiving satisfactory proof of the death of a nominator, the trade union shall pay to the nominee so much of the amount due by reason of the death of the nominator as is covered by the nomination.
(2) A nomination under this section-
(a) shall be in writing and be signed by the nominator, but may be partly printed;
(b) shall be delivered by hand or through the post at the registered office of the trade union concerned; and
(c) may be revoked or varied from time to time by a notice in writing, as to which paragraphs (a) and (b) of this section shall apply as they apply in the case of a nomination.
(3) may be revoked or varied from time to time by a notice in writing, as to which paragraphs (a) and (b) of this section shall apply as they apply in the case of a nomination.
(a) any nomination which would bring the total amount so covered above one hundred naira shall be of no effect; and
(b) not more than one hundred naira shall be paid to nominees under this section on the death of any particular member of a trade union.
(4)
A person is disqualified for nomination under this section if he is an official of the same trade union as the nominator:
Provided that a person who is the husband, wife, father, mother, child, brother, sister, nephew or niece of the nominator can be validly nominated even if he is an official of the same trade union as the nominator.