S.L. 318.1 Art. 5Making of claims. Em. Ord. VI of 1958; Ord. XXV of 1962; Act XLIV of 1965.

(1) Every person who desires to make a claim must fill in and sign a form of claim and deliver or send it to the Director of

Social Services or to such other officer as may be designated by the

Minister for the purpose. Where a claim is not duly completed and signed when so received it shall none the less be treated as a valid claim, if it is returned duly completed and signed within one month of the date on which it was returned to the claimant for completion.

(2) An illiterate person or a person who through physical causes is unable to write shall cause the form of claim to be filled in, and he shall then mark the form of claim so filled in, or, if physically unable to do so, shall cause it to be marked on his behalf.

(3) The Minister shall furnish to every Police station and office of the Ministry printed forms of claim, and every officer in charge of such station or office shall, on application being made to him for the purpose, supply a form of claim gratis to any person who desires to make a claim.

(4) Every such officer shall, if any person who desires to make a claim request him so to do, give to that person such information and such assistance in filling in the form of claim as is in his power to give and as may be necessary to enable that person to fill in the form properly.