(1) (a) Every employee employed in or in connection with the work of a factory or other establishment to which this Scheme applies, other than an excluded employee, shall be entitled and required to become a member of the Fund from the day this paragraph comes into force in such factory or other establishment.
(b) Every employee employed in or in connection with the work of a factory or other establishment to which this Scheme applies, other than an excluded employee, shall also be entitled and required to become a Member of the Fund from the day this paragraph comes into force in such factory or other establishment if on the date of such coming into force, such employee is a subscriber to a provident fund maintained in respect of the factory or other establishment or in respect of any other factory or establishment (to which the Act applies) under the same employer :
Provided that where the Scheme applies to a factory or other establishment on the expiry or cancellation of an order of exemption under Section 17 of the Act, every employee who but for the exemption would have become and continued as a Member of the Fund, shall become a Member of the Fund forthwith.
(2) After this paragraph comes into force in a factory or other establishment, every employee employed in or in connection with the work of that factory or establishment, other than an excluded employee, who has not become a Member already shall also be entitled and required to become a member of the Fund from the date of joining the factory or establishment.
(3) An excluded employee employed in or in connection with the work of a factory or other establishment to which this scheme applies shall, on ceasing to be such an employee, be entitled and required to become a Member of the Fund from the date he ceased to be such employee.
(4) On re-election of an employee or a class of employees exempted under Paragraph 27 or Paragraph 27-A to join the Fund or on the expiry or cancellation of an order under that paragraph, every employee, shall forthwith become a Member thereof.
(5) Every employee who is a Member of a private provident fund maintained in respect of an exempted factory or other establishment and who but for exemption would have become and continued as a Member of the Fund shall, on joining a factory or other establishment to which this scheme applies, become a Member of the Fund forthwith.
(6) Notwithstanding anything contained in this paragraph an officer not below the rank of an Assistant Provident Fund Commissioner may, on the joint request in writing of any employee of a factory or other establishment to which this Scheme applies and his employer, enroll such employee as a Member or allow him to contribute on more than rupees fifteen thousand of his pay per month if he is already a Member of the Fund and thereupon such employee shall be entitled to the benefits and shall be subject to the conditions of the Fund,
provided that the employer gives an undertaking in writing that he shall pay administrative charges payable and shall comply with all statutory provisions in respect of such employee.
Provident Fund
