The deposit-book is issued in the name of the depositor and is to
contain the notes necessary in forming a judgement of his identity, as
well as the signature of the party who makes the first deposit.
A depositor who cannot write will have to bring with him a trustworthy
man, who will have to attest the identity of the depositor and to sign
the deposit-book in his stead.
An assignment of a deposit-book to another person, is only to be
accepted by the Post Office Savings Bank when the act of assignment has
taken place at a Post Office entrusted with Post Office Savings Bank
business.
This being done, the assignee is to be regarded as the proprietor of
the deposit-book. (Art. 21, § 3.)
Minors are entitled to pay in sums as savings and to receive repayments
back provided their legal representatives have entered no written
objection at the Post Office Savings Bank.
In case of the loss of the deposit-book, a duplicate is, after carrying
out the proceedings prescribed by article 14, to be issued.
Whoever causes two or more deposit-books to be issued loses the
interests on the capital entered in the second and in any subsequent
books.
If the whole amount of the deposits in the two or more deposit-books,
that a depositor has caused to be issued, is over the sum of a 1,000
florins, the depositor loses that part of the capital which exceeds
1,000 florins.
The Minister of Commerce is empowered on well considered reasons to be
indulgent with reference to the loss of capital, which, in conformity
with the regulations occurs to surplus deposits.
Post Office servants are forbidden, except to their superiors, to give
any information whatever to anyone, as to the names of depositors, or
the amount of their deposits.