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Section 5E: Right of registered members to nominate.

The Life Insurance Corporation Act, 1956Central Act · Act 31 of 1956

[5E. Right of registered members to nominate.---(1) Every individual registered member may, at any time, nominate, in such manner as may be specified by regulations, an individual to whom all his rights in the shares shall vest in the event of death of such member.

(2) Where the shares are registered in the name of more than one individual jointly, the joint holders may together nominate, in such manner as may be specified by regulations, an individual to whom all their rights in the shares shall vest in the event of the death of all such joint holders.

(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for time being in force or in any disposition, whether testamentary or otherwise, where a nomination in respect of shares is made and which purports to confer on the nominee the right to vest the shares, the nominee shall, on the death of the member or, as the case may be, on the death of all the joint holders, become entitled to all the rights of the member or, as the case may be, of all the joint holders, in relation to such shares, and all other persons shall be excluded unless the nomination has been varied or cancelled before death in such manner as may be specified by regulations.

(4) Where the nominee is a minor, it shall be lawful for the individual registered holder of the shares to make nomination to appoint, in such manner as may be specified by regulations, any person to become entitled to the shares in the event of his death during the minority of the nominee.]

Where this provision sits

ActThe Life Insurance Corporation Act, 1956
Section5E
Marginal noteRight of registered members to nominate.
JurisdictionCentral
StatusIn force as published by the source

How this provision has been amended

Taken from the footnotes printed with the provision by the source. Where a footnote names the amending instrument, it is quoted as printed.

  • substituted, Act 13 of 2021. Subs. by Act 13 of 2021, s. 131, for s. 5 (w.e.f. 30-6-2021).

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