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"8. Rule 22 before 1972 amendment, provided that all nominations must be in writing and must be registered with the trustees. Rule 23 deals with payment to nominee and is to the effect that on the death of a member, the full amount shall be paid to the nominee, and such payment shall be a good discharge to the Trustees and to the Corporation.... against all claims whatsoever in respect o the Fund by whomsoever claiming through the said member. These two rules go to show that the main purpose of taking nomination is for the trustees of the fund to relieve themselves of their obligation in paying the provident fund amount, irrespective of the persons who may be entitled to the fund. Whenever provident fund amount is disbursed, the custodian of the fund is anxious to have a good discharge against all claims from whomsoever claiming through the member. The rules nowhere provide that the nomination is to be construed as a "will" by the member. If a nomination is to be taken as a final disposition made by the member as to how it should be taken by his heirs on his death, it would lead to anomalies because till the member dies, the nominee acquires no right to claim the amount. The legal right of a member to decide from time to time as to how his assets should be taken consequent to his death, cannot be frozen by a nomination given, as part of his service conditions. His legal rights about disposition of his assets cannot be circumscribed by such nomination. If he is to execute a "will" later on, contrary to the nomination that has been made earlier, the terms and conditions of the "will" alone can prevail, and so far as the trustees of the fund are concerned, their obligation will be fully discharged by paying it to the nominee, who will in turn be liable to handover the funds to the persons entitled to as per the 'will'. In case of intestate succession, the nominee is bound to handover the amounts to the heirs of the deceased. The main purpose of nomination is intended to benefit the custodians trustees of the fund to know as to how or to whom they should handover the amounts and need not make themselves answerable to multiplicity of claims from different persons claiming to succeed to the interests of the deceased member. If there is no nomination, the custodian of the fund cannot decide as to who are the lawful heirs to succeed and they will have to wait for a Court order to be produced, and unless finality is reached, therein the disbursement of the fund will be delayed. Funds, like the provident fund, in the case of State or other public institutions, may be sufficiently safeguarded even if there is to be a delay in disbursement. But in cases of other institutions, if the amounts are not immediately disbursed on the basis of nomination, and before proceedings in Court are over, if for any reasons, the companies or institutions are liquidated the contributions made by a member of such bodies will not enure to the benefit of the legal heirs till finality is reached in Court proceedings unless the amount is deposited in Court at the earliest stage. The concept of nomination has been thought of to achieve the disbursement of the amounts at the earliest point of time to the nominee who will be answerable to claims made by those who are entitled to the amount lawfully. Nomination means 'to mention by name" to appoint' 'to propose formally'.