Working Journalists and Other Newspaper Employees (Conditions of Service) and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1955
5-A.Nomination by working journalist. -
(l)Notwithstanding anything contained in any
law for the time being in force, or in any disposition, testamentary or
otherwise in respect of any gratuity payable to a working journalist, where a
nomination made in the prescribed manner purports to confer on any person the
right to receive Payment of the gratuity for the time being due to the working
journalist, the nominee shall, on the death of the working journalist, become
entitled to the gratuity and to be paid the sum due in respect thereof to the
exclusion of all other persons, unless the nomination is varied or cancelled in
the prescribed manner.
(2)Any nomination referred to in sub-section
(1) shall become void it the nominee predeceases, or where there are two or
more nominees all the nominees predecease, the working journalist making the
nomination.
(3)Where the nominee is a minor, it shall be
lawful for the working journalist making the nomination to appoint any person
in the prescribed manner to receive the gratuity in the event of his death
during the minority of the nominee.