Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) The Government may, by notification in the Gazette, frame a scheme to be called the "Kerala Jewellery Workers' Welfare Scheme" for the welfare of the workers and self employed persons coming under this Act and thereafter as soon as may be possible constitute a Fund in accordance with the provisions of this Act and the Scheme. (2) Subject to the provisions of this Act, the Scheme framed under sub-section (1) may provide for all or any of the matters specified in sub-section (5) and in the Schedule. (3) The following shall be credited to the Fund, namely:- (a) the contributions specified under section 4; (b) the cess amounts received under section 5; (c) amounts borrowed by the Board under section 22; (d) compensation realised under section 29; (e) any other amount to be credited to the Fund under the provisions of the Rules and the Scheme; (f) any donation from any other source. (4) The Fund shall vest in the Board and be administered by the Board constituted under section 19. (5) The Fund may be utilised for all or any of the following purposes and for the partial or full implementation of that, namely:- (a) for payment of pension to the following persons,- (i) to a member who had completed sixty years of age and had remitted contribution for a period not less than five years; (ii) to a person, who had completed sixty years of age before the commencement of the Scheme or not eligible for membership in the Scheme but had been a worker or self employed person, for a period of ten years, subject to the provisions of the Scheme; (iii) to a member who had remitted contribution to the Fund for at least ten years continuously and is unable to do any work, for a period of two years due to permanent physical infirmity; (iv) to a person of the member's family, on the event of the death of a member who had remitted contribution to the Fund continuously for at least ten years, in the order of preference, as may be prescribed; (b) for the payment of maternity benefits, as may be prescribed, to the woman member who had remitted contribution to the Fund continuously at least for a period of two years and not coming within the purview of the Employees State Insurance Scheme; (c) for the payment of financial assistance to the marriage of the daughters of the members and woman members who had remitted contribution to the Fund continuously at least for a period of three years; (d) for providing educational benefits or grant to the children of members who had remitted contribution to the Fund continuously at least for a period of two years; (e) for providing medical assistance, as may be prescribed, to the members and family members of the members who had remitted contribution to the Fund continuously, at least for a period of one year, for diseases like Cancer, Tuberculosis, Heart Disease, AIDS, Kidney Disease, Cerebral Hemorrhage; (f) for providing financial assistance to the family on the death of a member, as may be prescribed in the Scheme, if a member died during the tenure of his membership or within two years on the event of permanent physical infirmity; (g) for providing financial assistance, as may be prescribed, to the family of the person who died within three years after becoming a member as per the Scheme and entitled for pension; (h) for providing loan to a member for constructing house or for the repair and maintenance of the house who had remitted contribution to the Fund at least for a period of five years; (i) for providing a consolidated amount to a member, in the event of becoming unable to continue the employment, who had remitted contribution to the Fund at least for a period of five years, at such rates as may be prescribed on the basis of the number of years he had worked; (j) for implementing any other purposes as may be provided in the Scheme. (6) The Scheme framed under sub-section (1) shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is framed, before the Legislative Assembly while it is in session for a total period of fourteen days which may be comprised in one session or in two successive sessions and, if before the expiry of the session in which it is so laid or the session immediately following, the Legislative Assembly makes any amendment in the Scheme, the Scheme shall thereafter have effect only in such amended form. So, however, that any such amendment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under the Scheme.