(1) When the amount standing to the credit of a subscriber in the Fund becomes payable, it shall be the duty of the Accounts Officer to make payment, as provided in Section 4 of the Provident Funds Act, 1925.
(2) If the person to whom, under these rules, any amount or policy is to be paid, assigned, reassigned or delivered, is a lunatic for whose estate a manager has been appointed in this behalf under the Indian Lunacy Act, 1912 the payment or reassignment or delivery will be made to such manager and not to the lunatic.
Provided that where no Manager has been appointed and the person to whom the sum is payable is certified by a Magistrate to be a lunatic, the Accounts Officer may pay so much of the amount as he thinks fit to the person having charge of the lunatic and the surplus, if any, or such part thereof, as he thinks fit, shall be paid for the maintenance of such members of the lunatic’s family as are dependent on him for maintenance.
(3) Any person who desires to claim payment under this rule shall send a written application in that behalf to the Accounts Officer. Payments of amounts withdrawn shall be made in India only. The persons to whom the amounts are payable shall make their own arrangements to receive payment in India.
Note.- When the amount standing to the credit of a subscriber has become payable under Rules 18 and 19, the Accounts Officer shall authorize prompt payment of that portion of the amount standing to the credit of a subscriber in regard to which there is no dispute or doubt, the balance being adjusted as soon after as may be.