Section 5. (1) When a Government security is alleged to have been wholly or partly lost or destroyed, and a per

5. (1) When a Government security is alleged to have been wholly or partly lost or destroyed, and a person claims to be the person to whom but for such loss or destruction it would be payable, he may, on application to the prescribed officer, and on producing proof to his satisfaction of the loss or destruction and of the justice of the claim, obtain from him an order for— (a) the payment of interest in respect of the security said to be lost or destroyed pending the issue of a duplicate security; and (b) the issue of a duplicate security payable to the applicant.