Section 38, The Post Office Savings Bank (Rate of Interest) Order

If any depositor being illegitimate, or ha-ving had anillegitimate child or children, shall die intestate, leaving him or her surviving any person or persons who, but for the illegitimacy of such depositor, or any child of such depositor, would be entitled to the money due to such deceased depositor, it shall be lawful for the Postmaster General to pay the money of such deceased depositor to any one or more of the persons who, 'in his opinion, would, but for such illegitimacy, have been entitled to the same according to the Statute of Distributions. TRANSFER oF AccoUNT.