Government Securities Act 2006
8.
Right of survivors of joint holders or several payees. -
Notwithstanding
anything contained in section 45 of the Indian Contract Act, 1872 and subject
to the provisions of sections 7 and 10,-
a. when a Government
security is held by two or more persons jointly, and either or any of them
dies, the title to the Government security shall vest in the survivor or
survivors of those persons; and
b. when a Government
security is payable to two or more persons severally and either or any of them
dies, the Government security shall be payable to the survivor or survivors of
those persons or to the representative of the deceased or to any one of them:
Provided
that nothing contained in this section shall affect any claim which any
representative of a deceased joint holder or deceased holders of a Government
security or a surviving joint holder or holders of a Government security, as
the case may be, may have against the survivor or survivors or representatives
under or in respect of any Government security to which this section applies.
Explanation.-For
the purposes of this section, a body incorporated or deemed to be incorporated
under the Companies Act, 1956, or the Co-operative Societies Act, 1912, or any
other enactment for the time being in force relating to the incorporation of
associations of individuals, shall be deemed to die when it is dissolved.