Note P — APPENDIX
Reading edition
According to the altered form of the law of November 19th 1887.
The earlier form of Article 6 ran thus:
The deposit-book is issued in the name of the person for whom the savings have been deposited, and is to contain the notes necessary to the identification of the same, as well as the signature of the depositor.
A depositor who cannot write will have to bring with him a trustworthy man who will have to attest the identity of the depositor and to sign the deposit-book in his stead.
An assignment of a deposit-book to another person is only to be accepted by the Post Office Savings Bank when the act of assignment has taken place at a post office entrusted with Post Office Savings Bank business.
This being done, the assignee is to be regarded as the proprietor of the deposit-book. (Art. 21, paragraph 3.)
Minors are entitled to pay in sums as savings and to receive repayments back, provided their legal representative has entered no written objection at the Post Office Savings Bank.
In the case of the loss of the deposit-book, a duplicate is, after carrying out the proceedings prescribed by Article 14, to be issued.
For one and the same person, but one Post Office Savings Bank deposit-book is to be issued.
Whoever causes two or more deposit-books to be issued loses the interests on the capital entered in the second and in any subsequent books.
If the whole amount of the deposits in the two or more deposit-books that a depositor has caused to be issued is over the sum of a 1,000 florins, or if a depositor has deposited in one year more than 300 florins, in the two or more deposit-books issued to him, he will lose in the first case that part of the capital which exceeds 1,000 florins, and in the second, that part of the capital which exceeds 300 florins.
The Minister of Commerce is empowered for well considered reasons to be indulgent with reference to the loss of capital, which, in conformity with the regulations, would occur to the surplus deposits.
Post Office servants are forbidden, except to their superiors, to give any information whatever to anyone, as to the names of depositors and the amounts of their deposits.