Notification No. 322(E)

Post Office (Monthly Income Account) Amendment Rules, 2012 - Amendment in rule 8

What this is

Notification No. 322(E) was published on 25 April 2012. Its subject is Post Office (Monthly Income Account) Amendment Rules, 2012 - Amendment in rule 8.

This amends the Income-tax Rules. What it changes is the Rules, not the Act — and a rule can never take away what the section gives.

What it does

Acting under section 15 of the Government Savings Banks Act, 1873, the Central Government makes the Post Office (Monthly Income Account) Amendment Rules, 2012, further to amend the Post Office (Monthly Income Account) Rules, 1987. In rule 8, in sub-rule (1), after clause (i), a new clause (j) is inserted prescribing interest at 8.5 per cent per annum in respect of deposits made on or after 1 April 2012.

Who it reaches

depositors opening or adding to Post Office Monthly Income Accounts on or after 1 April 2012
post offices computing monthly interest on such accounts

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 (MONTHLY INCOME ACCOUNT) AMENDMENT RULES, 2012 - AMENDMENT IN RULE 8
NOTIFICATION NO.GSR 322(E), DATED 25-4-2012
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 (Monthly Income Account) Rules, 1987, namely:-
1. (1) These rules may be called the Post Office (Monthly Income Account) Amendment Rules, 2012.
(2) They shall deemed to have come into force on the 1st day of April, 2012.
2. In the Post Office (Monthly Income Account) Rules, 1987,—
(a) in rule 8, in sub-rule (1), after clause (i), the following clause shall be inserted, namely: -
"(j) 8.5 per cent per annum in respect of deposits made on or after the 1st day of April, 2012.".
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From when

1 April 2012, retrospectively.

What to watch

The rules are deemed to have come into force on 1 April 2012, so they operate retrospectively from a date before the notification of 25 April 2012.
The new rate of 8.5 per cent per annum applies only to deposits made on or after 1 April 2012; deposits made earlier continue to carry the rate of the clause under which they were made.
The power exercised is section 15 of the Government Savings Banks Act, 1873, so these are not the Income-tax Rules, 1962.

Where you meet it

In the monthly interest credited on a Post Office Monthly Income Account and in the interest shown in a depositor's return of income.

What it names

Rules it names. Rule 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. 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
G.S.R. 846(E) — Post Office Time Deposit (Second Amendment) Rules, 2011 - Amendment in rules 7 and 8 25 November 2011

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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.