(b) ascertain the amount, and provide for the payment, of the service and other debts in ship
or naval establishment, if any, of the deceased or deserter.
(2) In the case of a deceased officer whose representative, widow or next of kin has given
security to the satisfaction of the Committee for the payment of the service and other debts in ship or
naval establishment, if any, of the deceased, the Committee shall deliver any property received by it
under sub section (1) to that representative, widow or next of kin, as the case may be and shall not
further interfere in relation to the property of the deceased.
(3) In the case of a deceased officer the Committee, save as may be prescribed shall, if it appears
to it necessary for the payment of service and other debts in ship or naval establishment and the
expenses, if any, incurred by the Committee, and may, in any other case, collect all moneys left by
the deceased in any bank (including any post office savings bank, cooperative bank or society or any
other institution receiving deposits in money, however named) and for that purpose may require the
agent, manager or other proper officer of such bank, society or other institution to pay the moneys to
Committee forthwith, and such agent, manager or other officer shall comply with the requisition
notwithstanding anything in any rules of the bank or other institution ; and when any money has been
paid by a bank or other institution in compliance with the requisition under this subsection, no person
shall have a claim against the bank or other institution in respect of such money.
(4) In the case of a deceased officer whose estate has not been dealt with under subsection (2)
and in the case of a deserter the Committee, subject to rules, shall, for the purpose of paying the
service and other debts in ship or naval establishment, and may, in any other case, sell or convert into
money the movable property of the deceased or deserter.
(5) The Committee shall, out of the moneys referred to in subsection (3) and (4), pay the service
and other debts in ship or naval establishment, if any, of the deceased or deserter and in the case of a
deceased, also the expenses of his last illness.
(6) In the case of a deceased officer, the surplus, if any, shall be remitted to the prescribed person.
(7) In the case of an officer who is a deserter, the surplus, if any, shall be forthwith remitted to the
prescribed person and shall, on the expiry of three years from the date of his desertion, be forfeited to
Government unless the deserter shall in the meantime have surrendered or been apprehended:
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