s 17 Register of contributors to be kept
(1) A register shall be kept by the Directors in which shall be entered the date of the birth of every contributor and, if he be married, the dates of the births of his wife and children (if any) and all other dates and particulars respecting contributors and their families material to be recorded for the purposes of this Act. (2) Every public servant who enters the service of the Government subsequently to the commencement of this Act shall within six months after the date thereof notify the Directors the date of his birth, and if he be a married man the date of his marriage and of the births of his wife and children (if any), all duly proved to the satisfaction of the Directors by affidavit or otherwise. (3) Every contributor who marries or whose marriage is annulled or dissolved by a decree of a competent Court shall, within three months after the date of such marriage or decree, as the case may be, notify the same to the Directors in writing and, in the case of his marriage, state the date of birth of his wife, duly proved as aforesaid. (4) Every contributor shall notify to the Directors in writing the birth of each child born to him within three months from the date of such birth, duly proved as aforesaid, and the marriage of any female child under the age of twenty-one within three months from the date of such marriage, and also within three months from the date of the event the death of his wife or any of his pensionable children. (5) After the death of any contributor notice of such death and of the birth of any posthumous child born to such contributor, duly proved as aforesaid, and of the marriage of any female child of such contributor under the age of twenty-one years, and of the death of any child of such contributor under the age of twenty-one years shall be given in writing by the widow of such contributor to the Directors within three months after the date of the event.