36. Notice calling upon claimants to notify claims .-

(1) On the publication of a notification under section 18, the Collector therein specified may, at any time, with the previous sanction of the Government, publish in the Gazette a notice in English and in Malayalam or in such regional language as he may consider necessary calling upon all persons having pecuniary claims, whether immediately enforceable or not against the ward or his property, to notify the same in writing to the Collector within six months from the date of such notification. (2) The notice shall also be published at such places and in such other manner as the court may, by general or special order, direct and shall be sent by registered post to every person who is known to the Collector as having a pecuniary claim against the ward or his property and of whose address the Collector is credibly informed. (3) The Government may at any stage of the proceedings under this section and sections 37 and 39 invest any person either by name or by virtue of his office with the powers of a collector for any or all of the purposes of these sections. Explanation .-A claim shall be deemed to be pecuniary for the purposes of this section and sections 37 and 40 notwithstanding that a suit for its enforcement or a reference of such claim to arbitration is pending or that a decree or award has been passed establishing the same.