Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Subs. by Act 33 of 1988, s. 23, for certain words (w.e.f. 1-10-1988). 29 1[(3) Where in respect of any person or class of persons employed in an establishment an exemption is granted under this section from the operation of all or any of the provisions of any Scheme (whether such exemption has been granted to the establishment wherein such person or class of persons is employed or to the person or class of persons as such), the employer in relation to such establishment— (a) shall, in relation to the provident fund, pension and gratuity to which any such person or class of persons is entitled, maintain such accounts, submit such returns, make such investment, provide for such facilities for inspection and pay such inspection charges, as the Central Government may direct; (b) shall not, at any time after the exemption, without the leave of the Central Government, reduce the total quantum of benefits in the nature of pension, gratuity or provident fund to which any such person or class of persons was entitled at the time of the exemption; and (c) shall, where any such person leaves his employment and obtains re-employment in another establishment to which this Act applies, transfer within such time as may be specified in this behalf by the Central Government, the amount of accumulations to the credit of that person in the provident fund of the establishment left by him to the credit of that person’s account in the provident fund of the establishment in which he is re-employed or, as the case may be, in the Fund established under the Scheme applicable to the establishment. 2[(3A) Where, in respect of any person or class of persons employed in any establishment, an exemption is granted under sub-section (2A) or sub-section (2B) from the operation of all or any of the provisions of the Insurance Scheme (whether such exemption is granted to the establishment wherein such person or class of persons is employed or to the person or class of persons as such), the employer in relation to such establishment— (a) shall, in relation to the benefits in the nature of life insurance, to which any such person or class of persons is entitled, or any insurance fund, maintain such accounts, submit such returns, make such investments, provide for such facilities for inspection and pay such inspection charges, as the Central Government may direct; (b) shall not, at any time after the exemption without the leave of the Central Government, reduce the total quantum of benefits in the nature of life insurance to which any such person or class of persons was entitled immediately before the date of the exemption;3*** 4* * * * * (4) Any exemption granted under this section may be cancelled by the authority which granted it, by order in writing, if an employer fails to comply,— (a) in the case of an exemption granted under sub-section (1), with any of the conditions imposed under that sub-section 5[or sub-section (1A)] or with any of the provisions of sub-section (3); 6*** 7[(aa) in the case of an exemption granted under sub-section 8[(IC)], with any of the conditions imposed under that sub-section; and] (b) in the case of an exemption granted under sub-section (2), with any of the provisions of sub-section (3);