Employee's Provident Funds Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952
7F. Resignation
(1) The Presiding Officer may, by notice in
writing under his hand addressed to the Central Government, resign his office:
PROVIDED that the Presiding Officer shall,
unless he is permitted by the Central Government to relinquish his office
sooner, continue to hold office until the expiry of three months from the date
of receipt of such notice or until a person duly appointed as his successor
enters upon his office or until the expiry of his term of office, whichever is
the earliest.
(2) The Presiding Officer shall not be removed
from his office except by an order made by the President on the ground of
proved misbehavior or incapacity after an inquiry made by a Judge of the High
Court in which such Presiding Officer had been informed of the charges against
him and given a reasonable opportunity of being heard in respect of those
charges.
(3) The Central Government may, by rules,
regulate the procedure for the investigation of misbehavior or incapacity of
the Presiding Officer.]