Employees' Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act,1952

Act No : 19

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Section : Employees' Provident Fund Schemes.

5. Employees' Provident Fund Schemes.- 1*[(1)] The Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, frame a Scheme to be called the Employees' Provident Fund Scheme for the establishment of provident funds under this Act for employees or for any class of employees and specify the 2*[establishments] or class of 2*[establishments] to which the said Scheme shall apply 3*[and there shall be established, as soon as may be after the framing of the Scheme, a Fund in accordance with the provisions of this Act and the Scheme]. 4*[(1A) The Fund shall vest in, and be administered by, the Central Board constituted under section 5A. (1B) Subject to the provisions of this Act, a Scheme framed under sub-section (1) may provide for all or any of the matters specified in Schedule II.] 3*[(2) A Scheme framed under sub-section (1) may provide that any of its provisions shall take effect either prospectively or retrospectively on such date as may be specified in this behalf in the Scheme.]

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