Rule 52. Time, form and manner of nomination by an employee under sub-section (1), the time to make fresh nomination under sub-section (4), the form and manner of modification of nomination under sub-section (5) and the form for the fresh nomination under sub-section (6) of Section 55

(1) A nomination shall be made in the manner prescribed in Form-XI and be submitted in duplicate by the employee either by personal service after taking proper receipt or registered post acknowledgement due or electronically to the employer-(a) in case of an employee who is already in employment for a year or more, on the date of commencement of these rules, but has not submitted the nomination ordinarily within ninety days from such date; and

(b) in the case of an employee who has completed one year of service after the date of commencement of these rules, ordinarily within thirty days of the completion of one year of service:

Provided that nomination in Form-XI shall be accepted by the employer after the said period, if the same is supported by reasonable grounds for delay and no nominations accepted shall be invalid merely on the ground that it was filled after the specified period:

Provided further that in case of a fixed term employment, the nomination shall be submitted within one month from the date, the employee joins the service.

(2) Within thirty days of receipt of the nomination in Form-XI, as mentioned above, the employer shall get the service particulars of the employee as mentioned in the Form of the nomination, verified with reference to the record of the establishment and return to the employee, after obtaining a receipt thereof, the duplicate copy of the nomination Form-XI, duly attested either by employer or an officer authorized by him in this behalf as a token of recording of the nomination by the employer and the other copy of the nomination shall be recorded.

(3) An employee, who has no family at the time of making a nomination shall within ninety days of acquiring a family, submit in the manner specified in sub-rule (1), a fresh nomination as required under sub-section (4) of Section 55, in duplicate in Form-XI to the employer and thereafter provision of sub-rule (2) shall apply mutatis mutandis as if it was made under sub-rule (1).

(4) A notice of modification of a nomination, including cases where a nominee predeceases an employee, shall be submitted in duplicate in Form-XI to the employer specified in sub-rule(1), and thereafter provision of sub-rule (2) shall apply mutatis mutandis as if it was made under sub-rule (1).

(5) A nomination or a fresh nomination or a notice of modification of nomination shall be signed by the employee, or if the employee is illiterate, the said nomination shall bear his thumb-impression in the presence of two witnesses who shall also sign a declaration to that effect in the nomination, fresh nomination or notice of modification of nomination, as the case may be, and shall be submitted by the employee electronically or by registered post acknowledgement due.

(6) A nomination, fresh nomination or notice of modification of nomination shall take effect from the date of receipt thereof by the employer.