Para 10 - Loan - Public Provident Fund Scheme, 1968

Loan. 10. (1) Not withstanding the provisions of paragraph 9, any time after the expiry of one year from the end of the year in which the initial subscription was made but before the expiry of five years from the end of the year in which the initial subscription was made, a subscriber may, if he so desires, apply in Form D, or as near thereto as possible, together with his pass book, to the accounts office for obtaining a loan consisting of a sum of whole rupees not exceeding twenty-five per cent of the amount that stood to his credit at the end of the second year immediately preceding the year in which the loan is applied for. (2) On receipt of an application under sub-paragraph (1), the accounts office may, after satisfying itself that the amount of loan applied for is not in excess of the limit prescribed in sub-paragraph (1) and that the applicant has, till the date of application, been subscribing according to the limit specified in paragraph 3, subject to the provisions of sub-paragraph (3), sanction the loan and enter the amount in the pass book. (3) Where the application is made by a person who has made subscriptions to the fund on behalf of a minor of whom he is the guardian, he shall furnish a certificate in the following form, namely: — "Certified that the amount for which loan is applied for is required for the use of... who is alive and is still a minor." (4) A subscriber shall not be entitled to get a fresh loan so long as an earlier loan has not been repaid in full together with interest thereon.