82. Sums payable by the Government to mentally disordered person

Where any sum is payable in respect of pay, pension, gratuity, or other similar allowance to any person by the Government or the

Government of any state, and that person is found under this Act to be mentally disordered, the office under whose authority such sum would be payable if the payee were not mentally disordered may pay so much of that sum as he deems fit to the person having charge of the mentally disordered person, and may pay the surplus, if any, or such part of the surplus as he deems fit, for the maintenance of the members of the family of the mentally disordered person as are dependent on him for maintenance.