LawgistThe Coal Mines Provident Fund and Miscellaneous Provisions Act
10FPower to recover damages
1[10F. Power to recover damages.--Where an employer makes default in the payment of any contribution or bonus or any charges payable by him under any scheme framed under this Act, or where any person who is required to transfer provident fund accumulations in accordance with the provisions of section 3D makes default in the transfer of such accumulations, the Central Government may recover from such employer or person, as the case may be, such damages, not exceeding twenty-five per cent of the amount of arrears, as it may think fit to impose.]
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1. Ins. by s. 10, ibid. (w.e.f. 1-4-1966).
All sections
- 1 Short title and extent
- 2 Interpretation
- 3 Coal Mines Provident Fund Scheme
- 3A Constitution of Board of Trustees
- 3B Board of Trustee to be a body corporate
- 3C Appointment of officers
- 3D Transfer of accounts
- 3E Coal Mines Pension Scheme
- 3F Special grant by Central Government
- 3G Coal Mines Deposit-linked Insurance Scheme
- 4 Fund to be recognised under Act 43 of 1961
- 5 Coal Mines Bonus Scheme
- 6 Retrospective operation of a scheme
- 7 Modification of a schem
- 7A Schemes to be laid before Parliamen
- 7B Determination of moneys due from employers
- 8 Protection against attachmen
- 9 Penalty
- 10 Inspector
- 10A Mode of recovery of money due from an employe
- 10B Determination of employer in certain cases
- 10C Delegation of power
- 10D Payment of contribution by employers and recovery thereof from member
- 10E Recovery of monies by employers and contractors
- 10F Power to recover damages
- 11 Priority of payment of contributions and bonus over other debt
- 11A Protection for acts done in good faith
- 11B Power to remove difficultie
- 11C Power to exemp
- 11D Act to have effect notwithstanding anything contained in Act 31 of 1956
- 12 Repeal of Ordinance 7 of 1948
