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Nominations i) Each employee who has completed one year's service shall make within such time, in such form, as may be prescribed, a nomination for the purpose of Clause-1. ii) If an employee has a family at the time of making a nomination, the nomination shall be made in favour of one or more member(s) of his family, and any nomination made by such employee in favour of a person who is not a member of his family shall be void. iii) If at the time of making a nomination the employee has no family, the nomination may be made in favour of any person or persons but if the employee subsequently acquires a family, such nomination shall THE STATUTES 93 forthwith become invalid and the employee shall make, within such time as may be prescribed a fresh nomination in favour of one or more members of his family. iv) A nomination, may subject to provisions of (ii) and (iii) above, be modified by an employee at any time after giving to his employer a written notice, of his intention to do so. v) If a nominee predeceases the employee, the interest of the nominee shall revert to the employee who shall make a fresh nomination, in the prescribed form, in respect of such interest. vi) Every nomination, fresh nomination or alternation of nomination, as the case may be, shall be sent by the employee to his employer, who shall keep the same in his safe custody. vii) If there is no nomination or if the nomination made does not subsist, the gratuity shall be paid in the manner indicated below :- (a) If there are one or more surviving members of the family as in the following sub-clauses (aa), (bb), (cc) and (dd) to all such members in equal shares; aa)wife or wives, in the case of a male employee; bb)husband in the case of a female employee; cc)sons including steps sons and adopted sons; dd)unmarried daughters including step daughters and adopted daughters. b) If there are no such surviving members of the family as in Clause (a) above, but there are one or more members as in the following sub-clauses (aa), (bb), (cc), (dd), (ee) and (ff) to all such members in equal shares; aa)widowed daughters including step daughters and adopted daughters. 94 MAHARSHI DAYANAND UNIVERSITY, ROHTAK bb)Adoptive parents in the case of individuals whose personal law permits adoption. cc)brothers below the age of eighteen years including step brothers; dd)unmarried sisters and widowed sisters including step sisters; ee)married daughters; and ff) children of pre-deceased son. Note : 1 The right of a female member of the family or that of a brother, of an employee who dies while in service or after retirement, to receive the share of gratuity shall not be affected if the female member marries of remarries or the brother attains the age of eighteen years, after the death of employee and before receiving her of his share of the gratuity. 2 Where gratuity is granted under this rule to a minor member of the family of the deceased employee, it shall be payable to the guardian on behalf of the minor.