G.S.R. 846(E)

Post Office Time Deposit (Second Amendment) Rules, 2011 - Amendment in rules 7 and 8

What this is

G.S.R. 846(E) was published on 25 November 2011. Its subject is Post Office Time Deposit (Second Amendment) Rules, 2011 - Amendment in rules 7 and 8.

The provisions it speaks to

Left, the provision of the Income-tax Act, 1961 as the instrument itself names it. Right, the section of the Income-tax Act, 2025 that the department’s own concordance maps it to — which is where the same ground is now covered.

Under the 1961 Act	Now
s.15	s.15

The instrument, as the Board published it

The words below are the department’s own, reproduced from its published text. Where the department’s copy carried a publisher’s notes after the instrument, those are not reproduced.

Post Office Time Deposit (Second Amendment) Rules, 2011 - Amendment in rules 7 and 8
NOTIFICATION G.S.R. 846(E) [F.No.1/11/2011-NS-II], dated 25-11-2011
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 15 of the Government Savings Banks Act, 1873 (5 of 1873), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Post Office Time Deposit Rules, 1981, namely:-
1. (1) These rules may be called the Post Office Time Deposit (Second Amendment) Rules, 2011.
(2) They shall come into force on the 1st day of December, 2011.
2. In the Post Office Time Deposit Rules, 1981:-
(a) In rule 7,-
(A) under the heading Table-Q, for the brackets, words, figures and letters "[For deposits made on or after 1st March, 2003]", the brackets words, figures and letters, "[For deposits made on or after 1st March, 2003 but before 30th November, 2011]" shall be substituted;
(B) after Table-Q, the following Table shall be inserted, namely:-
"Table-R
[For deposits made on or after 1st December, 2011]

Period of deposit
Rate of Interest per cent per annum

1 year
7.7

2 years
7.8

3 years
8.0

5 years
8.3
";

(C) in the Notes, in paragraph (2), for the word and letter "Table Q", the words and letters "Table Q or Table R" shall be substituted;
(b) in rule 8, for clause (aa) and clause (b) the following shall be substituted, namely:-
(aa) where a deposit in 1-year, 2-year, 3-year or 5-year account is withdrawn prematurely after 6 months but before the expiry of one year from the date of deposit, simple interest at the rate applicable from time to time to post office savings account shall be payable;
(b) where a deposit in a 2-year, 3-year and 5-year account is withdrawn prematurely after the expiry of one year from the date of deposit, interest on such deposit shall be payable to the depositor for the completed years and months falling in the period commencing on the date of deposit and ending with the date of withdrawal and such interest shall be calculated at the rate, which shall be one per cent, less than the rate specified for a deposit of 1 year, 2 year or 3 years, as the case may be, in the relevant Table under rule 7.
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What it names

Rules it names. Rule 7, 8 of the Income-tax Rules, 1962. The 1962 Rules were replaced by the Income-tax Rules, 2026, which renumbered nearly everything: a rule number quoted here almost never means the same rule today.

On the same provision

Other instruments in this library that name the same provision of the 1961 Act. They are not necessarily still operative, and a later one may have replaced an earlier one without saying so.

Circular No. 3/2025 — Income tax deduction from salaries during the financial year 2024 25 under section 192 of the income tax act 1961 20 February 2025
Notification No. GSR 926(E) [F. No. 2/6/2006-NS.II], dated 24-12-2012 — Post Office Savings Account (Amendment) Rules, 2012 - Amendment in rule 4A 24 December 2012
Notification No. 323(E) — Post Office Time Deposit (Amendment) Rules, 2012 - Amendment in rule 7 25 April 2012
Notification No. 322(E) — Post Office (Monthly Income Account) Amendment Rules, 2012 - Amendment in rule 8 25 April 2012
Notification No. 321(E) — Senior Citizens Savings Scheme (Amendment) Rules, 2012 - Amendment in rule 7 25 April 2012
Notification No. 320(E) — Post Office Recurring Deposit (Amendment) Rules, 2012 - Amendment in Rules 9, 10 11 and 12 25 April 2012

What a notification is. A notification is made under a power the Act itself gives, and within that power it is law — unlike a circular, which only binds the department. Its reach is the reach of the enabling provision and no wider, and the date it carries decides from when it works.

Source: the Income Tax Department’s own published text — its page for this instrument.