The deposit book is to be delivered gratuitously and stamp-free.
The Post Office Savings Bank will open an account for each depositor.
[P] According to the altered form of the law of November 19th 1887.
The earlier form of Article 6 ran thus:
The deposit-book is issued in the name of the person for whom the savings have been deposited, and is to contain the notes necessary to the identification of the same, as well as the signature of the depositor.
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, paragraph 3.)
Minors are entitled to pay in sums as savings and to receive repayments back, provided their legal representative has entered no written objection at the Post Office Savings Bank.
In the case of the loss of the deposit-book, a duplicate is, after carrying out the proceedings prescribed by Article 14, to be issued.