Section 12: Payment of deposits belonging to lunatics.

If any depositor becomes insane or otherwise incapable of managing his affairs, and if such insanity or incapacity is proved to the satisfaction of the Authorised Officer of the Government Savings Bank in which his deposit may be, such Authorised Officer may, from time to time, make payments out of the deposit to guardian, and the receipt of such guardian, for money paid under this section, shall be a sufficient discharge therefor, Where a committee or manager of the depositor’s estate has been duly appointed, payments shall be be made to such committee or manager.