income or accumulation of income accrued therefrom to the credit of the 1[Federal Government]:
Provided that such deposit shall not bar the claim of any person to such surplus or any part
thereof.
160. Disposal of certain property without production of probate, etc. Property deliverable
and money payable to the representative, widow or next of kin of a deceased officer under section
158 or section 159 may, if the total value thereof does not exceed two thousand rupees, and if the
prescribed person thinks fit, be delivered or paid to any one of them who appears to him to be entitled
to receive it or to administer the estate of the deceased, without requiring the production of any
probate, letters of administration, succession certificate or other such conclusive evidence of title [:]2
2[Provided that when the deceased officer was attached to or formed part of, a force which was
not on active service the commanding officer shall obtain from the representative widow or next of
kin of the deceased to whom the amount as aforesaid is paid an undertaking to the effect that the
amount left after payment of debts, if any, shall be distributed among the legal heirs of the deceased.]
161. Discharge of committee, prescribed person and the Government. Any payment of money
or delivery, application, sale or other disposi tion of any property made, or in good faith purported to
be made, by the committee or the prescribed person in pursuance of section 158, section 159 or
section 160 shall be valid shall be a full discharge to those ordering or making the same and to the
Government from all further liability in respect of the property of money; but nothing in this section
shall affect the rights of any executor or administrator or other representative, or of any creditor of
the deceased officer against any person to whom such delivery or payment has been made.
1 Subs. by the Pakistan Army (Amdt.) Act, 1973 (51 of 1973), s. 3, for “Central Government”.
2 Subs. and added by the Pakistan Army (Amdt.) Act, 1992 (28 of 1992), s. 6.
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