LawgistThe Provident Funds Act
1Short title, extent and commencement
(1) This Act may be called the Provident Funds Act, 1925.
(2) It extends to the whole of India 1 [except the State of Jammu and Kashmir*] 2***.
(3) It shall come into force on such date3 as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.
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1. Subs. by Act 3 of 1851, s. 3 and Schedule, for "except Part B States".
2. The words "including British Baluchistan" omitted by the A.O. 1948.
3. 1st April, 1926, Gazette of India, 1925, Pt. I, p. 1182.
*. Vide Notification No. S.O. 3912 (E), dated 30th October, 2019, this Act is made applicable to the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir and the Union territory of Ladakh.
All sections
- 1 Short title, extent and commencement
- 2 Definitions
- 3 Protection of compulsory deposits
- 4 Provisions regarding re-payments
- 5 Rights of nominees
- 6 Power to make deductions
- 6A Withholding or recovery of Government contributions in case of Central Government officers taking up, without prior permission, commercial employment within two years of their retirement
- 7 Protection for acts done in good faith
- 8 Power to apply the Act to other Provident Funds
- 9 Savings as to estates of soldiers
- 10 Repealed.
