Pensions Act,1871
Act No : 23
Section :
Assignments, etc., in anticipation of pension, to be void.
12.Assignments, etc., in anticipation of pension, to be void. All assignments, agreements' orders, sales, and securities of every kind made by the person entitled to any pension, Pay or allowance mentioned in section 11, in respect of any money not payable at or before the making thereof, on account of any such pension, Pay or allowance, or for giving or assigning any future interest therein, are null and void. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. I.e., "inams of the classes described in cl. 1, s. 2, [Mad.] Regulation 4 of 1831, which have been, or shall be, enfranchised by the Inam Commissioner and converted into freeholds in perpetuity, or into absolute freeholds in perpetuity". The classes so described are "hereditary or personal grants of money or of land-revenue, however, denominated, conferred by the authority of the Governor in Council [or which, having been made by any Native Govt. have been confirmed or continued by the British Govt.-Act 31 of 1836] in consideration of services rendered to the State or in lieu of resumed offices or privileges, or of zamindars or paleiyams forfeited or held under attachment or management by the officers of Govt., or as a yaumia or charitable allowance, or as a pension". 2. Subs. by the A.O. 1937 for 'L. G." 3. See also s. 60, cl (g) of the Code of Civil Procedure 1908 (Act 5 of 1908). 4.The words "in Part A States and Part C States" omitted by the Adaptation of Laws (No. 2) Order, 1956. The words "Part A States and Part C States" were subs. by the A.O. 1950, for "the Provinces" which had been subs. by the A.O. 1948, for "British India". 5.Ins. by the A.O. 1937. 6.I.e., on or after the 1st April, 1937. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 131 (IV.-Miscellaneous.) 1-12A. Nomination by Pensioner to receive moneys outstanding on account of pension.-.-. Notwithstanding anything contained in section 12 or in any other law for the time being in force,- (a)any person to whom any pension mentioned in section 11 is payable by the Government of India or out of the Consolidated Fund of India (such person being hereinafter referred to as the pensioner) may nominate any other person (hereinafter referred to as the nominee), in such manner and in such form as may be prescribed by the Central Government by rules, to receive after the death of the pensioner, all moneys payable to the pensioner on account of such pension at, before or after the date of such nomination and which remain unpaid immediately before the death of the pensioner; and (b)the nominee shall be entitled, on the death of the pensioner, to receive, to the exclusion of all other persons, all such moneys which have so remained unpaid: provided that if the nominee predeceases the pensioner, the nomination shall, so far as it relates to the right conferred upon the said nominee, become void and of no effect: provided further that where provision has been duly made in the nomination, in accordance with the rules made by the Central Government, conferring upon some other person the right to receive all such moneys, which have so remained unpaid, in the event of the nominee predeceasing the pensioner, such right shall, upon the decease as aforesaid of the nominee, pass to such other person.]
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