Banking Regulation Act, 1949
45ZC. Nomination for return of articles kept
in safe custody with banking company
(1) Where any person leaves any article in
safe custody with a banking company, such person may nominate, in the
prescribed manner, one person to whom, in the event of the death of the person
leaving the article in safe custody, such article may be returned by the
banking company.
(2) Where the nominee is a minor, it shall be lawful
for the person making the nomination to appoint in the prescribed manner any
person to receive the articles deposited in the event of his death during the
minority of the nominee.
(3) The banking company shall, before
returning any articles under this section to the nominee or the person
appointed under sub-section (2), prepare, in such manner as may be directed by
the Reserve Bank from time to time, an inventory of the said articles, which
shall be signed by such nominee or person and shall deliver a copy of the
inventory so prepared to such nominee or person.
(4) Notwithstanding anything contained in any
other law for the time being in force or in any disposition, whether testament
try or otherwise, in respect of such articles, where a nomination made in the
prescribed manner purports to confer on any person the right to receive the
articles from the banking company, the nominee shall, on the death of the
person leaving the articles in safe custody, become entitled to the return of
the article to the exclusion of all other persons, unless the nomination is
varied or cancelled in the prescribed manner:
PROVIDED that nothing contained in this section
shall affect the right or claim which any person may have against the person to
whom the article is returned in pursuance of this sub-section.