**Policy Summary: Senior Citizens Welfare Fund Amendment Rules, 2016**
This notification, G.S.R. 981(E), issued by the Ministry of Finance, Department of Economic Affairs, on October 17, 2016, announces amendments to the Senior Citizens Welfare Fund Rules, 2016. These amendments, titled the "Senior Citizens Welfare Fund Amendment Rules, 2016," are enacted under the authority of Section 128 of the Finance Act, 2015 (20 of 2015). The rules come into force on the date of publication in the Official Gazette. The core amendment involves substituting the words "Deputy Secretary" with "Joint Secretary" in clauses (b), (c), (d), (e), (f), and (g) of sub-rule 3 of rule 4 within the Senior Citizens Welfare Fund Rules, 2016. The principal rules being amended were initially published under notification number G.S.R. 322(E) on March 18, 2016. The issuing authority is Prashant Goyal, Joint Secretary.
Key Entities Referenced
Finance Act, 2015: A financial act, specifically section 128, which confers powers to the Government.
Senior Citizens Welfare Fund Rules, 2016: The rules being amended by this notification.
Senior Citizens Welfare Fund Amendment Rules, 2016: The title of the amendment rules.
Ministry of Finance: The ministry under which the Department of Economic Affairs operates, responsible for the notification.
Department of Economic Affairs: The department within the Ministry of Finance that issued the notification.
New Delhi: The location where the notification was issued. State: Delhi
Prashant Goyal: The Joint Secretary who signed the notification.
Government of India Press, Ring Road, Mayapuri, New Delhi: Location where document was printed. State: Delhi
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4857 GI/2016 (1)2 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA : EXTRAORDINARY [PART II—SEC. 3(i)]
MINISTRY OF FINANCE
(Department of Economic Affairs)
NOTIFICATION
New Delhi, the 17th October, 2016
G.S.R. 981(E).—In exercise of the powers conferred by section 128 of the Finance Act, 2015 (20 of 2015),
the Government herby makes the following rules to amend the Senior Citizens’ Welfare Fund Rules, 2016,
namely:-
1.(cid:32) (1) These rules may be called the Senior Citizens’ Welfare Fund (Amendment) Rules, 2016.
(2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.
2.(cid:32) In the Senior Citizens’ Welfare Fund Rules, 2016, in rule 4, in sub-rule (3), in clauses (b), (c), (d), (e), (f)
and (g), for the words “Deputy Secretary”, wherever they occur, the words “Joint Secretary” shall be
substituted.
[F. No. 13/20/2014-NS.II]
PRASHANT GOYAL, Jt. Secy.
Note : The principal rules were published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i)
vide notification number G.S.R. 322(E), dated 18th March, 2016.
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