171. Discharge of Committee, prescribed person and the Government. Any payment of
money or delivery, application, sale or other disposition of any property or money made, or purported
to be made by the Committee or the prescribed person in good faith in pursuance of section 168,
section 169 or section 170 shall be valid and shall be a full discharge to the Committee or the
prescribed person, as the case may be, and to Government from all further liability in respect of that
money or property ; but nothing therein contained shall affect the right of any executor or
administration or other representative, or of any creditor of the deceased officer against any person to
whom such payment or delivery has been made.
172. Property in the hands of the Committee or the prescribed person not to be assets at the
place where the Committee or the prescribed person is stationed. Any property coming under
section 168 into the hands of the Committee or the prescribed person shall not, by reason of so
coming, be deemed to be assets or effects at the place in which that Committee or the prescribed
person is stationed and it shall not be necessary by reason thereof that representation be taken out in
respect of that property for that place.
173. Saving of rights of representative. After the Committee has deposited with the prescribed
person the surplus of the property of any deceased officer under subsection (6) of section 168, any
representative of the deceased shall, as regards any property of the deceased not collected by the
Committee and not forming part of the aforesaid surplus, have the same rights and duties as if section
168 had not been enacted.
174. Application of sections 168 to 173 to lunatics, etc. The provisions of sections 168 to 173
shall, so far as they can be made applicable, apply in the case of an officer who, notwithstanding
anything contained in the Lunacy Act, 1912 (IV of 1912), is ascertained in the prescribed manner to
be insane, or, who, being on active service, is officially reported missing as if he had died on the day
on which his insanity is so ascertained or, as the case may be, on the day on which he is officially
reported missing :
Provided that in the case of an officer so reported missing no action shall be taken under sub
sections (2) to (5) of section 168 until such time as he is officially presumed to be dead.
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