Life Insurance Corporation Act, 1956
8. Provident,
superannuation and other like funds.-
1.
Where
an insurer whose controlled business is to be transferred to and vested in the
Corporation under section 7, has established a provident or superannuation fund
or any other like fund for the benefit of his employees and constituted a trust
in respect thereof (hereinafter in this section referred to as an existing
trust), the moneys standing to the credit of any such fund on the appointed
day, together with any other assets belonging to such fund, shall, subject to
the provisions of sub-section (2) stand transferred to and vest in the
Corporation on the appointed day free from any such trust.
2.
Where
all the employees of any such insurer do not become employees of the
Corporation under section 11, the moneys and other assets belonging to any such
fund as it referred to in sub-section (1), shall be apportioned between the
trustees of the fund and the Corporation in the prescribed manner; and in case
of any dispute regarding such apportionment, the decision of the Central
Government thereon shall be final.
3.
The
Corporation shall, as soon as may be after the appointed day, constitute in
respect of the moneys and other assets which are transferred to and vested in
it under this section, one or more trusts having objects as similar to the
objects of the existing trusts as in the circumstances may be practicable.
4.
Where
all the moneys and other assets belonging to an existing trust are transferred
to and vested in the Corporation under this section, the trustees of such
trust, except as respects things done or omitted to be done before the
appointed day.