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EMPLOYEES PROVIDENT FUND SCHEME

1952

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Related Legislation: - Employees Provident Fund and Miscellaneous Provisions Act , 1952

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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