Preliminary
Para 1 : Short title and application
Para 2 : Definition
Board Of Trustees, Executive Committees
Para 3 : Election of certain members of the Executive Committee
Para 4 : Regional Committee
Para 5 : Terms of office
Para 6 : Resignation
Para 7 : Cessation and restoration of trusteeship
Para 8 : Disqualifications for trusteeship or membership of Regional Committee
Para 9 : Removal from trusteeship or membership of a Regional Committee
Para 10 : Absence from India
Para 11 : Meetings
Para 12 : Notice of meeting and list of business
Para 12-B : Restoration to normal pension in cases of grant of commutation
Para 13 : Chairman to preside at meetings
Para 14 : Quorum
Para 14-A : Nomination of a substitute during the absence of a Trustee/Member of the Central Board.
Para 15 : Disposal of business
Para 16 : Minutes of meetings
Para 17 : Acts of a Regional Committee not invalid by reason merely of any vacancy in, or defect in the constitution,etc.
Para 18 : Fees and allowances
Appointment and Powers of Commissioner and Other Staff of Board of Trustees
Para 19 : Central Provident Fund commissioner and Financial Adviser and Chief Accounts Officer .
Para 20 : Omitted.
Para 21 : Opening of Regional and other offices.
Para 22 : Secretary of the Central Board or a Regional Committee.
Para 22-A : Appointment of officers and employees of the Central Board
Para 23 : Information of appointments to the Central Board
Para 24 : Administrative and financial powers of a Commissioner
Para 24-A : Delegation of power by the Central Board
Membership of the Fund
Para 25 : Powers of the Central Government until the Central Board is constituted
Para 26 : Classes of employees entitled and required to join the Fund.
Para 26-A : Retention of membership
Para 26-B : Resolution of doubts
Para 27 : Exemption of an employee
Para 27-A : Exemption of a class of employees
Para 27-AA : Terms and conditions of exemption
Para 28 : Transfer of accumulations from existing Provident Funds
Contributions
Para 29 : Contribution
Para 30 : Payment of contribution
Para 31 : Employers share not to be deducted from the members
Para 32 : Recovery of a member's share or contribution
Para 32-A : Recovery of damages for default in payment of any contribution
Para 32-B : Terms and conditions for reduction or waiver of damages.
Declaration, Contribution Cards and Returns
Para 33 : Declaration by persons already employed at the time of the institution of the Fund.
Para 34 : Declaration by persons taking up employment after the Fund has been established.
Para 35 : Preparation of contribution cards
Para 36 : Duties of employers
Para 36-A : Employer to furnish particulars of ownership
Para 36-B : Duties of contractors.
Para 37 : Allotment of account Numbers
Para 38 : Mode of payment of contributions
Para 39 : Fixation of administration charges
Para 40 : Contribution to be entered in the contribution card
Para 40-A : Supply of Passbooks to the members
Para 41 : Currency of contribution cards
Para 42 : Renewal of contribution cards
Para 43 : Submission of contribution cards to the commissioner
Para 44 : Custody of contribution cards
Para 45 : Inspection of cards by members
Para 46 : Production of cards and records for inspection by the Commissioner or Inspector.
Para 47 : Supply of cards and forms to employers
Para 48 : Current Account
Administration of the Fund, Accounts and Audit
Para 49 : Administration Accounts
Para 50 : Provident fund Account
Para 51 : Interest Suspense Account.
Para 52 : Investment of moneys belonging to employees' Provident Fund
Para 53 : Disposal of the Fund
Para 54 : Expenses of administration
Para 55 : Form and manner of maintenance of accounts
Para 56 : Audit
Para 57 : Inter-State transfer of members
Para 58 : Budget
Para 59 : Member's Accounts
Para 60 : Interest
Nominations, Payments and Withdrawals From The Fund
Para 61 : Nomination
Para 62 : Financing of Members' Life Insurance Policies
Para 63 : Conversion of policy into a paid-up one and payment of late fee, etc.
Para 64 : Assignment of Policies to the Fund
Para 65 : Bonus on policy to be adjusted against payments made from the Fund.
Para 66 : Reassignment of policies
Para 67 : Recovery of amounts paid towards Insurance Policies
Para 68 : Omitted
Para 68-A : Omitted
Para 68-B : Withdrawal from the fund for the purchase of a dwelling house/flat or for the construction of a dwelling house
Para 68-BC : Withdrawal financing from the Fund for the purchase of a dwelling house/flat or the construction of a dwelling house
Para 68-BB : Withdrawal from the Fund for repayment of loans in special cases
Para 68-C : Omitted.
Para 68-D : Omitted.
Para 68-E : Computation of period of membership
Para 68-F : Omitted.
Para 68-G : Omitted.
Para 68-GG : Omitted.
Para 68-H : Grant of advance in special cases
Para 68-I : Omitted.
Para 68-J : Advance form the Fund for illness in certain cases
Para 68-K : Advance from the Fund for marriages or post-matriculation education of children
Para 68-L : Grant of advances in abnormal conditions
Para 68-M : Grant of advance to members affected by cut in the supply of electricity.
Para 68-N : Grant of advance to members who are physically handicapped
Para 68-NN : Withdrawal within one year before the retirement
Para 68-NNN : Option for withdrawal at the age of 55 years for investment in Varishtha Pension Bima Yojana
Para 68-O : Payment of withdrawal or advance
Para 68NNNN : Option for withdrawal on cessation of employment
Para 69 : Circumstances in which accumulations in the Fund are payable to a member
Para 70 : Accumulations of a deceased member -To whom payable?
Para 70-A : Payment of provident fund accumulations in the case of a person charged with the offence of murder.
Para 71 : Omitted.
Para 72 : Payment of Provident Fund
Para 73 : Annual statement of member's account
Para 73-A : Omitted.
Miscellaneous
Para 74 : Annual Report on the work and activities of the Board and its audited accounts
Para 75 : Issue of copies of member's account, Annual Report, etc.
Para 76 : Punishment for failure to pay contributions, etc
Para 77 : Conduct of business of the Central Board
Para 78 : Power to issue directions
Para 79 : Special provisions relating to factories or other establishments in respect of which applications for exemption are recd
Para 79-A : Filing application for review
Para 79-B : Time-limit for communicating the view of the Central Board to the appropriate Government.
Para 79-C : Composition of the Board of Trustees of the exempted establishments & the terms and conditions of service of the trustee
Para 80 : Special provisions on the case of newspaper establishments and newspaper employees.
Para 81 : Special provisions in the case of Cine- Workers
Para 82 : Special Provisions in respect of certain employees
Para 83 : Special Provisions in respect of International Workers