Section Text
1 [(1)] The 2 [appropriate Government) may by notification in the 3 [official Gazette], direct that the provisions of this Act 4 [except Section 6-A) shall apply to any Provident Fund established for the benefit of its employees by any local authority within the meaning of the Local Authorities Loans Act, 1914 (9 of 1914), and, on the making of such declaration, this Act shall apply accordingly, as if such Provident Fund were a Government Provident Fund and such local authority were the Government:
5 [(2) The 6 [appropriate Government] may, by notification in the 7 [official Gazette], direct that the provisions of this Act 4 [except Section 6-A] shall apply to any Provident Fund established for the benefit of the employees of any of institutions specified in the Schedule, or of any group of such institutions, and on the making of such declaration, this Act shall apply accordingly, as if such Provident Fund were a Government Provident Fund and the authority having custody of the Fund were the Government :
Provided that Section 6 shall apply as if the authority making the contributions referred to in that Section were the Government.
(3) The 2 [appropriate Government] may, by notification, in the 7 [official Gazette], add to the Schedule the name of any public institution 8 [it] may deem fit, and any such addition shall take effect as if it had been made by this Act.]
9 [(4) In this Section "the appropriate Government" means--
(a) in relation to a cantonment authority, a port authority for a major port, and any institution which, or the objects of which, appear to the Central Government to fall within List I in the Seventh Schedule to 10 [the Constitution, the Central Government and
(b) in other cases, the 11 [State] Government.
Explanation.--"The 11 [State] Government in relation to an institution registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860 (21 of 1860), means the 11 [State] Government of the 11 [State] in which the society is registered.]
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1. The original Section 8, was re-numbered as sub-Section (1) of that Section by Act I of 1930, Section 3.
2. Substituted by the A.O. 1937, for "L.G.".
3. Substituted by the A.O., 1937 for "Gazette of India".
4. Inserted by Act 46 of 1975, Section 3.
5. Added by Act I of 1930, Section 3.
6. Substituted by the A.O. 1937 for: "G-G. in C.".
7. Substituted by the A.O. 1937 for "Gazette of India".
8. Substituted ibid. for "he".
9. Inserted by A.O. 1935.
10. Substituted by the A.O., 1950, for "the Government of India Act, 1935".
11. Substituted by ibid., for "Provincial".