 the, government savings laws (amendment) bill, 1985 a billfurther to amend the government 'savings banks act, 1873 and the government savings certificates act 1959 bbit enacted by parliament in, the thirty-sixth year of the republic of india as follows:"-1 this act may be called the government savings laws (amend-short ment) act, 1985 ' title, 5 10 !20 2 in the government savings banks act" 1873,--amendmentot (a) in sub-section (4) of section 4a,-acta of (i) in clause (a), for the words "five thousand rupees", the 1873, words "such lijniias may be prescribed" shall be substit~tedj (ii) in clause (b), for the words "aforesaid limit of five thousands rupees", the words, brackets and letter "limit prescribed under clause (4)" shall be substituted;  (b) in su~tion (2) of-section 15, after clause (h), the following clause shall be inserted, namely:-"(i) the limit under clause (a) of sub-section (4) of section 4a" 3 in the government savings certificates act, 1959,-amendmentof (ei) in sub-section (4) of section 7, for the words five thousand act~ot rupees", the words "such limit 'as may be prellcl'ibed" shall be 1959 substituted; (b) in sub-section (2) of section 12, after clause (i), the following clause shall be inserted, namely:-" (ia) the limit under sub-section ,(4) of section 7;"  statement of objects and· reasonsunder section4a of the government savings banks act, 1873, deposits in a government savin'gs bank belonging to the estate of a deceased person are payable, i  case there is a nomination in favour of any person, to such person or, as the ca<:e may be, the guardian at such person in case there !s no nomination, and the deposit exceeds five thousand rupees, deposits are payable to the legal heirs of the deceased only on production of a probate of his will or letters of administration  of his estate or ' a succession certificate where there is no nomination and the deposit does not exceed dve thousand rupees, the authority concerned can pay the deposit to the 'persons appearing to him to be entitled to receive the same or theo administrator of the estate of the deceased similar provisions are contained in the government savjngs certificates act, 1959 with regard to payment of sums due 01'\ savings certificates in the event of the death· of the holder 2 the production of legal proof of succession involves considerable delay and expense it was for ,this reason that the aforesaid provisions by way of facility at nomination and by way of payment of·amounts not exceeding five thousand rupees without production of legal proof of ,succession were made while every care is taken and special drives in that behalf have been organised to secure that depositors and certificate holders make proper nominations, there have been a number of cases without proper nominations further, the limit of five thousand rupees was fi~ed long ago on the basis of the money value then it is, therefore, proposed to omit the limit and empower the central government to provide by rules from time to time appropriate limits up to which claims could be settled by the authorities without insisting on legal proof of succession 3 the bill seeks to achieve the above objective new dmhi; the 9th august, 1985 vishwanath pratap singh    mellorandum regarding delegated legislationthe bill empowers the central government to· make rules specifying the limit up to which the deceased depositor's or ceniftcate holder's claim can be settled iii c88e6 where there is no nomination, without production of probate or letters of administration or succession certificate this is a matter of nonnal nature and administrative detail moreover, the rull!s made will have to be laid before each house of parliament and they will be subject ,to the scrutiny of parliament the delegation of legislative power is, theretore, of a normal character  extracts from 'me government savings banks acr, 1873 (5 of 1873)  -  | 4a (1)    |     ||------------|--------||         |        || -          |        ||         |        || payment    |        || on         | death  || of         | de-    || poaltor   |        |39 of 1925 (4) if a depositor dies·and thea"e is no nomination in 'oree at the time of his death and probate of· his  will or letters -of administration -of, his estate or a succession eanificate granted under the· ,j'ndian -succession act, 1925, is not within three months -of the deatbof the depositor produced to the secretary ·of· the government savings bank in which the deposit -is, then-(a) if the deposit does not exceed five thousand rupees, the secretaty may pay the same to any person appearing to him to be entitled to receive it or to administer the estate of the deceased; and (b) within the aforesaid limit of five thousand rupees, any officer employed in the management of a government savings bank who is empowered in this behalf by a general or special order of the central government may, to the extent to which he is empower ed by such order and subject to any general or special orders of the secretary in this behalf, pay the deposit to any person appearing to him to be entitled to receive it or to administer the estate  -  -   15 (1)   - -  power tdmlike rules (2) in particular, and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rlll£'~ may provide for alfor'any of the following matters, namely:-- - -  -  extracts from the govejllqbnt savings cbrtdtcates alc:r, 1959(46 of 1959) -  - -  7 (1) -  -  -  pa)-ment on death of holder 39oflh5 (4) if a person dies and is at the time of his death the holder of a savings certificate and there is no nomination in force at the timeof his death and probate of his will or letters of administration of his estate or a succession certificate' granted under the indian succession act, 1925, is not within three months of the death of the holder produced to the prescribed authority, then, if the sum due on the savings certificate does not exceed five thousand rupees, the prescribed authority may pay the aame to any person appearing to it to be entitled to receive the sum or  to administer the estate of the deeeaaed  - - - - - -12 (1) - - - - - ilvwer to make rules (2) in particular and without prejudice to the generality of the forego~ power such rules may provide for:-- - - - -   a bju~further to amend the government savings banks act, 1873 aad the government savings eel tificatc::; act, 1959 i ~ (shri vishwanath pratap singh, mini$ter 01 finance) 