Section 22, The Post Office Savings Bank (Rate of Interest) Order

(1) The warrant issued under the provision of rule 21 Payment ofwarrant. shall be presented at the Post Office named thereon together with the depositor's book. · (2) The paying officer shall take a receipt on the warrant, for the sum therein specified, from the person named therein or from any person authorised by him (as provided by these rules) to receive the said amount and such receipt shall be a good discharge to the Postmaster General for the sum specified in the warrant. Such receipt must be signed in full view of the paying officer who must see the applicant write his signature. The signature on the form must agree in all essentials with the signature in the depositor's book. (3) Where the person to whom a warrant is made 'payable cannot write, he must, when he presents the warrant, affix his mark and thumbprint to the receipt space on the warrant in the presence of a witness who must attest the same and who Withdrawals from minors' Withdrawals for the accounts of married women. Disposal of deposits of lunatics or other incapacitated depositors. Withdrawal from joint and trustee can identify the person applying for the money as the person stated in the warrant. The thumbprint must agree with the thumbprint in the depositor's book. (4) The paying officer shall enter in the depositor's book the amount paid in respect of the warrant and shall attest the entry with his signature and the date stamp of his office. (5) Any person who upon any form prescribed in the Schedule makes any declaration or certificate which he knows to be false or which he has not reason to believe to be true shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine of fifty pounds.