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Notification 25 April 2012

S.O. 904(E)

Public Provident Fund Account - Rate of interest on or after 1-4-2012

What this is

S.O. 904(E) was published on 25 April 2012. Its subject is Public Provident Fund Account - Rate of interest on or after 1-4-2012.

This notifies a named person, body, fund or instrument for the purpose of a provision. Nothing in it changes the provision itself.

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 ActNow
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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.

Public Provident Fund Account - Rate of interest on or after 1-4-2012
Notification No. S.O. 904(E), dated 25-4-2012
In pursuance of Section 5 of the Public Provident Fund Act, 1968 (23 of 1968), the Central Government hereby notifies that the subscriptions made to the fund on or after the 1st day of April, 2012 and the balances at the credit of the subscriber shall bear interest at the rate of 8.8 per cent per annum
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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.

← Notification No. 16/2012  ·  Notification No. 323(E) →

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.