Subject to any deduction under rule 19 on the death of a subscriber before the amount standing to his credit has become payable or where the amount has become payable, before payment has been made,-
(i) When the subscriber leaves a family-
(a) if a nomination made by the subscriber in accordance with the provisions of rule 5 in favour of a member or members of his family subsists, the amount standing to his credit in the Fund or any part thereof to which the nomination relates, shall become payable to his nominee or nominees in the proportion specified in the nomination;
(b) if no such nomination in favour of member or members of the family of the subscriber subsists, or if such nomination relates only to a part of the amount standing to his credit in the fund, the whole amount or the part thereof to which the nomination does not relate, as the case may be, shall not withstanding any nomination purporting to be in favour of any person or persons other than a member or members of his family become payable to the members of his family in equal shares :
Provided that no share shall be payable to.-
(1) sons who have attained legal majority;
(2) Sons of a deceased son who have attained legal majority;
(3) married daughters whose husbands are alive;
(4) married daughters of a deceased son whole husbands are alive if there is any member of the family other than the specified in clause (1), (2), (3) and (4) :
Provided also that the widow or widows and the child or children of a deceased son shall receive between them in equal parts only the share which that son would have received if he had survived the subscriber and had been exempted from the provisions of clause (1) of the first proviso.
Note. - Any sum payable under these rules to a member of the family of a subscriber vests in such member under sub-section (2) of section 3 of the Provident Fund Act, 1925 (Central Act 19 of 1925).
(ii) When the subscriber leaves no family, if a nomination made by him in accordance with the provisions of rule 5, in favour of any person or persons subsists, the amount standing to his credit in the fund or the part thereof to which the nomination relates, shall become payable to his nominee or nominees in the proportion specified in the nomination:
Note. - When a nominee is a dependent of the subscriber as defined in clause (c) of section 2 of the Provident Fund Act, 1925, the amount vests in such nominee under sub-section (2) of section 3 of that Act.
(iii) When the subscriber leaves no family and no nomination made by him in accordance with the provisions of rule 5 subsists or if such nomination relates only to pat of the amount standing to his credit in the Fund, the relevant provisions of clause (b) and of sub-clause (ii) of clause (c) of sub-section (1) of section 4 of the Provident Fund Act, 1925 are applicable to the whole amount or the part thereof to which the nomination does not relate.