162. 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 158 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 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.
163. 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 158 any
representative of the deceased shall, as regards any property not collected by the committee and not
forming part of the aforesaid surplus, have the same rights and duties as if section 158 had not been
enacted.
164. Applications of sections 158 to 163 to lunatics, etc. The pro visions of sections 158 to 163
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
subsections (2) to (5) of section 158 until such time as he is officially presumed to be dead.
165. Appointment of standing committee of adjustment when officers die or desert while on
active service. When an officer dies or deserts while on active service, the references in the
foregoing section of this Chapter to the committee shall be construed as references to the Stand ing
Committee of Adjustment, if any, appointed in this behalf in the manner prescribed.
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