Rule 14 - Replacement of lost or destroyed certificate - Social Security Certificates Rules, 1982

Replacement of lost or destroyed certificate. 14. (1) If a certificate is lost, stolen, destroyed, mutilated or defaced, the person entitled thereto may apply for the issue of a duplicate certificate to the post office, where the certificate is registered or at any other post office in which case the application will be forwarded to the post office where the certificate stands registered. (2) Every such application shall be accompanied by- (a) a statement showing particulars, such as, number, amount and date of the certificate and the circumstances attending such loss, theft, destruction, mutilation or defacement; (b) identity slip, if any. (3) If the officer-in-charge of the post office where the certificate stands registered is satisfied of the loss, theft, destruction, mutilation or defacement of the certificate, he shall issue a duplicate certificate on the applicant's furnishing an indemnity bond in the form laid down by the Director General, Posts and Telegraphs, with one or more approved sureties or with a bank's guarantee : Provided that where the certificate lost, stolen, destroyed, mutilated or defaced is of the denomination of Rs. 500, a duplicate certificate or certificates may be issued on the applicant furnishing an indemnity bond without any such surety or guarantee: Provided further that where such application is made with respect to a certificate mutilated or defaced, of whatever face value, a duplicate certificate may be issued without any such indemnity bond, surety or guarantee, if the certificate mutilated or defaced and the identity slip, if any, are surrendered and the certificate is capable of being identified as the one originally issued. (4) A duplicate certificate issued under sub-rule (3) shall be treated as equivalent to the original certificate for all the purposes of these rules except that it shall not be encashable at a post office other than the post office at which such certificate is registered without previous verification.