For one and the same person, but one Post Office Savings Bank deposit-book is 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, or if a depositor has deposited in one year more than 300 florins, in the two or more deposit-books issued to him, he will lose in the first case that part of the capital which exceeds 1,000 florins, and in the second, that part of the capital which exceeds 300 florins.
The Minister of Commerce is empowered for well considered reasons to be indulgent with reference to the loss of capital, which, in conformity with the regulations, would occur to the surplus deposits.
Post Office servants are forbidden, except to their superiors, to give any information whatever to anyone, as to the names of depositors and the amounts of their deposits.
[Q] According to the altered form of the law of November 19th 1887.
The earlier form of Article 7 ran thus:
Each payment must amount to at least 50 kreutzers or a multiple of 50 kreutzers. The sum total of payments in the course of a year cannot exceed the amount of 300 florins, after deducting the amount resulting from payments back during that year.
The balance in favour of a depositor including deposits paid in and interest added to the capital cannot, deducting the amount of repayments amount to more than 1,000 florins.
Deposits of 50 kreutzers can be made in postage stamps, or in special postal savings stamps as soon as such stamps are issued by the Minister of Commerce. These stamps are to be fastened on forms supplied gratuitously.