Section 6 of Gujarat Maritime Board Employees Regulations, 1985

Nominations. :- (1) A subscriber shall at the time of joining the Fund, send to the Account Officer a nomination conferring on one or more persons the right to receive the amount that may stand to his credit in the Fund, in the event of his death, before that amount has become payable or having become payable has not been paid: Provided that if, at the time of making nomination, the subscriber has a family, the nomination shall not be in favour of any person or persons other than the members of his family: Provided further that the nomination made by the subscriber in respect of any other Provident Fund or which he was subscribing before joining the Fund shall, if the amount to his credit in such other fund has been transferred to his credit in the Fund, be deemed to be a nomination duly made under this regulation until he makes a nomination in accordance with this regulation. (2) If a subscriber nominates more than one person under subregulation (1), he shall specify in the nomination the amount of share payable to each of the nominees in such manner as to cover the whole of the amount that may stand to his credit in the Fund at any time. (3) Every nomination shall be in such one of the forms set forth in the First Schedule as is appropriate in the circumstances. (4) A subscriber may at any time cancel a nomination by sending a notice in writing to the Account Officer. The subscriber shall alongwith such notice or separately send a fresh nomination made in accordance with the provisions of this regulation. (5) A subscriber may provide in a nomination (a) in respect of any specified nominee, that in the event of his predeceasing the subscriber, the right conferred upon that nominee shall pass to such other person or persons as may be specified in the nomination, provided that such other person or persons shall, if the subscriber has other members of his family, be such other member o r members. Where the subscriber confers such a right on more than one person under this clause, he shall specify the amount or share payable to each of such persons in such a manner as to cover the whole of the amount payable to the nominee; (b) that the nomination shall become invalid in the event of the happening of a contigency specified therein: Provided that if at the time of making the nomination the subscriber has no family he shall provide in the nomination that it shall become Invalid in the event of his subsequently acquiring a family: Provided further that if at the time of making the nomination the subscriber has only one member of the family, he shall provide In the nomination that the right conferred upon the alternate nominee under clause (a) shall become invalid in the event of his subsequently acquiring other member or members in his family. (6) Where a subscriber nominates more than one person under this regulation he shall specify the share payable to each of such persons so however that the whole of the amount in the subscriber's account is apportioned by Such nomination. (7) Immediately on the death of a nominee in respect of whom no special provision has been made in the nomination under clause (a) of sub-regulation (5) or the occurrence of any event by reason of which the nomination becomes Invalid .In pursuance of Clause (b) of sub- regulation (5) or the proviso thereto, the subscriber shall send to the Account Officer a notice in writing canceling the nomination, together with a fresh nomination made in accordance with the provisions of this regulation. (8) Every nomination made and every notice of cancellation given by a subscriber shall to the extent that It is valid, take effect on the date on which it is received by the Account Officer.