LawgistThe Coal Mines Provident Fund and Miscellaneous Provisions Act
5Coal Mines Bonus Scheme
(1) The Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, frame a scheme to be called the Coal Mines Bonus Scheme for the payment of bonus to 1[employees] and specify the coal mines to which the said scheme shall apply.
(2) A scheme framed under the provisions of sub-section (1) may provide for all or any of the matters specified in the 2[Fourth Schedule.]
3[(3) The employer shall pay the bonus in accordance with the Scheme as aforesaid.]
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1. Subs. by Act 80 of 1950, s. 4, for "employees in coal mines".
2. Subs. by Act 99 of 1976, s. 8, for "Third Schedule" (w.e.f. 1-8-1976).
3. Ins. by Act 45 of 1965, s. 5 (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
