 the employees' provident fund (amendment) bill, 1958(to be introduced in lok sabra)  the employees' provident fund (amendment)  bill, 1958  (to de introduced in lok sabha) a billfurther to amend the e1!tployees' provident }<'unds act, 1952 be it enacted by parliament in the ninth year of the republic of india as follows:-1 this act may be called the employees' ~rovident funds short title (amendment) act, 1958 of 1952 5 2 in section 2 of the employees' provident funds act, 1952 a d (hereinafter referred to as the principal act), for clause (a), the oi~:~ti~e~~ following clause shall be substituted, namely:-- (a) "appropriate government" means-10 (i) in relation to an establishment belonging to, or under the control of, the central government or in relation to an establishment connected with a railway company, a major port, a mine or an oil field or a controlled industry, the central government; and (ii) in relation to any other establishment, the state government;' 15 20 3 in section 16 of the principal act, for sub-section (1), the amendment following sub-section shall be substituted, namely:-of section j6 -  (1) this act shall not apply to any establishment until the expiry of three years from the date on which the establishment is, or has been, set up explanation-for the removal of doubts, it is hereby declared that an establishment shall not be deemed to be newly set up merely by reason of a change in its location"  statement of objects and reasonsthe employees' provident funds act, 1952, does not apply at present to any establishment belonging to the government or a local authority by virtue of section 16 (1) (a) of the act it has been felt that this exception in favour of the establishments owned by government or a local authority offends against the principle of uniformity of treatment of the public and the private sectors in the matter of application of labour laws it is, therefore, proposed to omit clause (a) of section 16 (1) of the act it is also proposed to amend the definition of "appropriate government" in section 2 (a) of the act in order to enable the central government under section 17 to exempt, in suitable cases, any establishment belonging to, or under the control of, the central government or connected with a railway company or a major port the present bill seeks to achieve these objects g l nanda new delhi; the 31st march, 1958 this bill contemplates to bring establishments belonging to government or a local authority within the purview of the employees' provident funds act and the scheme framed thereunder section 6 of the act lays down that the contribution which shall be paid by the employer to the employees' provident fund shall be six and a quarter per cent of the basic wages and the dearness allowance including the cash value of food concession, if any, for the time being payable to each of the employees most of the establishments belonging to the central government which would be covered under the act have provident funds of their own 2 an establishment covered under the employees' provident funds scheme is 'required to pay administrative charges at 3% of the total employees' and employers' contributions 3 an establishment may seek exemption from the operation of the statutory scheme and continue to run its own scheme in case its benefits in the nature of provident fund, pension or gratuity, are separately or on the whole not less favourable than the provisions of the act and the statutory scheme in that case the establishment is required to pay inspection charges at 3/4% of the employees' and employers' contribution it is not likely that any additional expenditure would be involved from the consolidated fund of india on account of contribution to the provident funds but the bill would entail additional expenditure in the matter of payment of administrative or insp~tion charges  annexure extracts from the employees' provident funds acr, 1952- (no 19 0j0' 1952) - - - - - - 2 in this act unless the context otherwise requires,-definitions (a) "appropriate government" means-(i) in relation to an establishment which is a factory engaged in a controlled industry, or a mine or an oil field, the central government, and (ii) in relation to any other establishment, the state government; - - - - - - - 16 (1) this act shall not apply to-act not to apply to (a) any establishment belonging to the government or a establishlocal authority, and ments belonging to (b) any other establishment, established whether before or government  or local after the commencement of this act, unless three years have authority elapsed from its establishment ~nd alao to , mfant factories explanation-for the removal of doubts, it is hereby declared that the date of the establishment of an establishment shall not be deemed to have been changed merely by reason of a change of the premises of the establishment - - - - - - -  a billfurther to amend the employees' provident funds act 1952 the president has, in pursuance of clause (3) of article 117 of the constitution of india, recommended to lok sabha, the consideration of the bill, secretary (shri         gulzarilal                        nanda,   minister of labour and   employment and planmng) 