'File 1/4 Personal File of Captain H D H Rance' [‎285ev] (577/936)

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feub-taie (c) norninated ahy pferson other than a member of kis family, h6
shall formally cancel the previous nomination,
(e) A subscriber may in his nomination distribute the amount that may
stand to his credit in the Fund amongst his nominees at his own discretion.
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(f) A nomination may be cancelled by a subscriber provided that it
is repliiced at the same time by any oilier nomination which is permitted 1o be
made under this rule. On the death of a nominee a subscriber shall make a
fresh nomination.
(ji) When a nomination purports to dispose of a subscriber's accumula
tions hi the Fund otherwise ihan lo a member or members of his family, the
Accounts Officer shall call upon the subscriber to state whether he has a family,
and if it is found that he has one, a fresh nomination in favour of a member or
members of such family shall be submitted by the subscriber.
(iii) A nomination in favour of an adopted child is made al the t^ib-
scriber's risk and can be challenged at any time. If doubts arise in an indivi
dual case, the Accounts Officer concerned will refer the matter to the Adjutant
General or the Flag Officer Commanding or the Air Officer Commanding, as the
case may be, and his opinion shall be iinal for the purposes of these Rules.
(iv) When a subscriber quits the service the bum standing at his credit
in the Fund shall become his property and shall be handed to him by the
Accounts Officer. The procedure for the final payment of deposits is as
follows :—
(a) Subscribers residing in India will submit their applications direct
to tJie Accounts Officer. Those residing in the United Kingdom will submit
their applications to the Accountant-General, India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. , who will transmit
them urgently by air mail (with full particulars of the recoveries on account
of subscriptions, etc., made by him and the Monthly Account Current
through which credit for the same will be afforded to India), to the Accounts
Officer.
(b) In the case of subscribers to the sterling branch, where a subscriber
desires to receive payment in sterling of the amount standing at credit in
his sterling account, the application will be accompanied by a personti
declaration by the subscriber that he intends to reside in a country in which
the rupee is not iegral tender, and the Accounts Officer will take steps to
seek the sanction of the Government of India, War Department, to pay
ment of the deposits in sterling,
(e) Subscribers residing in Dominions and Colonies will address their
applications, which should be accompanied by the personal declaration
referred to above in the case of subscribers to the sterling branch who desire
to receive payments of their deposits in sterling, to the Local Colonial Pay-
in-jtser, who will transmit them with details of recoveries made by him on
account of subscriptions, etc., to the Accounts Officer at the same time inform
ing the Accountant-General, India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. , of the amount of recoveries made.
Colonies which are in direct accounts with India will not inform the India
O'iice of the amount of recoveries.
(d) In the case of subscribers to the rupee brfinch of the Fund, the
Accounts Officer will sanction payment of the deposits.
The Controller of Military Accounts and Pensions, Lahore, may sanction
in nrsrent cases interim payment up to the actual balance standing to a subs
criber's credit on the books in the Controller's office on the 31st March in the
year nrior to the subscriber retiring, proceeding on leave preparatory to re
tirement, or being invalided, etc., if delay is anticipated in making payment