Provident Funds Act, 1925 Section 6

When the sum standing to the credit of any subscriber or depositor In any Government or Railway Provident Fund which is a Contributory Provident Fund becomes payable, there may, if the authority¹[specified in this behalf in the rules of the Fund] so directs, be deducted there from and paid to²[Govermnent or the railway administra­tion, as the case may be]-

(a) any amount due under a liability incurred by the subscriber or depositor to²[Government or the railway administration], but not exceeding in any case the total amount of any contribution credited to the account of the subscriber or depositor and of any interest or "increment which has accrued on such contributions ; or

(b) where the subscriber or depositor has been dismissed from³[his employment] for any reasons specified in this behalf in the rules of the Fund, or where he has resigned such employment within five years of the commencement thereof, the whole or any part of the amount of any such contributions, Interest and increment.

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1. Substituted by Act 28 of 1925, Section 3, for "by which the fund has been constituted".

2. Substituted by Act 28 of 1925, Section 3, for "the authority".

3. Substituted by Act 28 of 1925, Section 3, for "the employment of that authority".