(1) Pension/gratuity payable to a lunatic.

(1) Pension/gratuity payable to a lunatic. - 1. When any sum is payable in respect of pay, pension, gratuity or other similar allowance to any person (by the Central Government or any State Government) and the person to whom the sum is payable is certified by a Magistrate to be lunatic, the Government Officer under whose authority such sum would be payable, if the payee were not a lunatic, may pay so much of the said sum as he thinks fit to the person having charge of the lunatic and may pay the surplus, if any, or such part thereof, as he thinks fit for the maintenance of such members of the lunatic's family as are dependent on him for maintenance. 2. The Government concerned, shall be discharged of all liability in respect of any amounts paid in accordance with the section. [Section 95 (1) of the Indian Lunacy Act, 1912.]