Employee's Provident Funds Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952
5A. Central Board
(1) The Central Government may, be
notification in the Official Gazette, constitute, with effect from such date as
may be specified therein, a Board of Trustees for the territories to which this
Act extends (hereinafter in this Act referred to as the Central Board)
consisting of the following [persons as members], namely:
(a) a Chairman and a
Vice-Chairman] to be appointed by the Central Government;
(aa) the Central
Provident Fund Commissioner, ex officio];
(b) not more than five
persons appointed by the Central Government from amongst its officials;
(c) not more than
fifteen persons representing Governments of such States as the Central
Government may specify in this behalf, appointed by the central Government;
(d) [ten persons]
representing employers of the establishments to which the Scheme plies,
appointed by the Central Government after consultation with such organizations
of employers as may be recognized by the Central Government in this behalf; and
(e) [ten persons]
representing employees in the establishments to which the Scheme applies,
appointed by the Central Government after consultation with such organizations
of employees as may be recognized by the Central Government in this behalf.
(2) The terms and conditions subject to which
a member of the Central Board may be appointed and the time, place and
procedure of the meetings of the Central Board shall be such as may be provided
for in the Scheme.
(3) The Central Board shall, [subject to the
provisions of section 6A] [and section 6C], administer the fund vested in it in
such manner as may be specified in the Scheme.
(4) The Central Board shall perform such other
functions as it may be required to perform by or under any provisions of the
Scheme, [Family Pension Scheme and the Insurance Scheme].
(5) The Central Board shall maintain proper
accounts of its income and expenditure in such form and in such manner as the
Central Government may, after consultation with the Comptroller and
Auditor-General of India, specify in the Scheme.
(6) The accounts of the Central Board shall be
audited annually by the Comptroller and Auditor-General of India and any
expenditure incurred by him in connection with such audit shall be payable by
the Central Board to the Comptroller and Auditor General of India.
(7) The Comptroller and Auditor-General of
India and any person appointed by him in connection with the audit of the
accounts of the Central Board shall have the same rights and privileges and
authority in connection with such audit as the Comptroller and Auditor-General
has, in connection with the audit of Government accounts and, in particular,
shall have the right to demand the production of books, accounts, connected
vouchers, documents and papers and inspect any of the offices of the Central
Board.
(8) The accounts of the Central Board as certified
by the Comptroller and Auditor-General of India or any other person appointed
by him in this behalf together with the audit report thereon shall be forwarded
to the Central Board which shall forward the same to the Central Government
along with its comments on the report of the Comptroller and Auditor-General.
(9) It shall be the duty of the Central Board
to submit also to the Central Government an annual report of its work and
activities and the Central Government shall cause a copy of the annual report,
the audited accounts together with the report of the Comptroller and
Auditor-General of India and the comments of the Central Board thereon to be
laid before each House of Parliament.]