Section 3. Payment on death of holder of Post Office 5-year Cash Certificate

3. Payment on death of holder of Post Office 5-year Cash Certificate .—(1) If a person dies and is at the time of his death the holder of a Post Office 5-year Cash Certificate, payment of the sum for the time being due on such certificate may be made in the manner provided in the Government Savings Banks Act, 1873 (5 of 1873), for the payment of deposits belonging to the estates of deceased persons, and the provisions of sections 4 to 9 of the said Act shall apply accordingly as if the holder of such certificate were a depositor in a Government Savings Bank and the sum for the time being due on such certificate were a deposit in such a Bank[3] [and as if for the words "three thousand" in[4] [section 8] of the said Act the words "five thousand" were substituted]: Provided that the powers conferred by the said provisions on the Secretary of a Government Savings Bank shall be exercisable by the Post Master General for the area within which the post office of issue of such certificate is situate[5] [or if that area is in Pakistan, by the Post Master General for such area in India as the Central Government may by general or special order specify in this behalf]: 1. This Act has been extended to Bern by the Berar Laws Act, 1941.(4 of 1941) and has been declared to be in force in the Khondmals District by the Khondmals Laws Regulation. 1936 (4 of 1936), s. 3 and Sch,; and in the Angul District by the Angul Laws Regulation. 1936 (5 of 1936), s. 3 and Sch. It has also been applied to Porahat Estate in the district•of Singhbhum by the Porahat Estate Laws Regulation, 1945 (Bihar Reg. 1 of 1945). This Act has been extended with effect from 1-9-1962 to the Union territory of Goa, Daman and Diu, vide Notification No. S.O. 2734, dated 1-9-1962, see Gazette of India. Extraordinary. Pt. II. s. 3(ii), p. 1991. It has been extended and brought into force in Dadra and Nagar Haveli by Reg. 6 of 1963, s. 2 and Sch. I and comes into force in Pondicherry on 1-10-1963 vide Reg. 7 of 1963. s. 3 and Sch. I. 2. Subs. by Act 32 of 1920, s. 2, for certain words. 3. Ins. by s. 3, ibid. 4. Subs. by Act 2 of 1943, s. 3, for "sections 4 and 8".