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urn: urn:us-la:rs:9:2012
citation: "R.S. 9:2012"
status: active
breadcrumb: "Title 9 › Code Preliminary Title › Code Book III › Code Title II › Chapter 1 › Part III › Subpart E"
acts_citations:
  - { year: 1988, number: 589, section: 1, effective_date: null, role: enactment }
---

# Provisional principal beneficiaries

Until the time when the principal beneficiaries are determined, the persons who would be the principal beneficiaries had that time arrived shall be known as the provisional principal beneficiaries. Provisional principal beneficiaries shall be income beneficiaries in the absence of an effectively designated income beneficiary. A provisional principal beneficiary who is not an income beneficiary is not considered a beneficiary for any purposes under this Code.