Issue of certificate to specified disabled person and specified widow.

15A. (1) Every person claiming to be a specified widow, or a specified disabled person for the purposes of this Act shall apply to the officer authorised by the State Government in the prescribed form for the issue of a certificate that the person so claiming is a specified widow or a specified disabled person, as the case may be. (2) On receipt of such application, the officer so authorised shall, after making such inquiry as he deems fit, decide whether such person is a specified widow or a specified disabled person, as the case may be, and the decision of such officer shall, subject to an appeal to the State Government, be final. (3) If the officer decides that such person is a specified widow or, as the case may be, a specified disabled person, he shall issue a certificate to that effect in the prescribed form to such person. (4) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-sections (1), (2) and (3), if at any time, on receipt of an application or otherwise, the State Government or the officer authorised by the State Government under sub-section (1) is satisfied after making such inquiry as may be thought fit and giving reasonable opportunity to be heard to the person concerned, that any person to whom a certificate given under sub-section (3) has ceased to be a specified widow, or as the case may be, a specified disabled person, the State Government or such officer may, by order in writing, direct that with effect from such date as may be specified in the order such person shall cease to be a specified widow, or, as the case may be, specified disabled person, and thereupon any certificate granted to such person under sub-section (3) shall stand revoked and such person shall be bound to surrender the same to the State Government.