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On an application in Form-1 to the accounts office, an account under National Savings Recurring Deposit Scheme, 2019 may be opened by-(a) a single adult; or (b) upto three adults jointly; (c) a guardian on behalf of a minor or a person of unsound mind; or (d) a minor who has attained the age of ten years, in his own name.
The account under National Savings (Monthly Income Account) Scheme, 2019 may be opened by making an application in Form-1 by-(i) a single adult; (ii) upto a maximum of three adults in joint names; (iii) a minor who has attained the age of ten years; (iv) a guardian on behalf of a minor or a person of unsound mind.
An individual may open a PPF account by making an application in Form-1. (2) An individual may also open one account on behalf of each minor or a person of unsound mind of whom he is the guardian:
Central Government hereby rescinds with immediate effect the Public Provident Fund Scheme, 1968, published vide number G.S.R. 1136(E), dated the 15th June, 1968, except as respects things done and omitted to be done before such rescission.
Central Government rescinds rules, namely The Post Office Savings Account Rules, 1981, The National Savings Time Deposit Rules, 1981, National Savings Recurring Deposit Rules, 1981, National Savings (Monthly Income Account) Rules, 1987, National Savings Certificate (VIII Issue) Rules, 1989, Senior Citizens Savings Scheme Rules, 2004, Kisan Vikas Patra Rules, 2014 and Sukanya Samriddhi Account Rules, […]
Rates of interest on various small savings schemes for the fourth quarter of financial year 2017-18 starting 1st January, 2018 and ending on 31st March, 2018, on the basis of the interest compounding payment built-in in the schemes, shall he as under.
These rules may be called the National Savings Time Deposit (Amendment) Rules, 2017. They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette. In the National Savings Time Deposit Rules, 1981, in rule 5, in sub-rule (1), for the words two hundred, the words “one hundred” shall be substituted.
In the Senior Citizen Savings Scheme Rules, 2004, in rule 2, in clause (d), in sub-clause (ii), in the second proviso, for the words irrespective of the above age limit the words on attaining the age of fifty years shall be substituted.
Provided that if a resident Indian having purchased a certificate, subsequently becomes Non-Resident during the currency of the maturity period, the certificate shall be encashed or deemed to be encashed be encashed on the day he becomes a non-Resident, and ab interest shall be paid at the rate applicable to the Post Office Savings Account, from time to time, from such day and upto the last day of the month preceding the month in which it is actually encashed”
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 12 of the Government Savings Certificate Act, 1959 ( 46 of 1959) , the Central Government hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Post Office Savings Certificates Rules, 1960, namely
