law: Employee's Provident Funds Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952
  15. Special provisions relating to existing
  
  provident funds
  (1) Subject to the provisions of section 17,
  
  every employee who is a subscriber to any provident fund of [an establishment]
  
  to which this Act applies shall, pending the application of a Scheme to] the
  
  [establishment] in which he is employed, continue to be entitled to the
  
  benefits accruing to him under the provident fund, and the provident fund shall
  
  continue to be maintained in the same manner and subject to the same conditions
  
  as it would have been if this Act had not been passed.
  (2) On the application of any Scheme to
  
  [establishment], the accumulations in any provident fund of the
  
  [establishment], standing to the credit of the employees who become members of
  
  the fund established under the Scheme] shall, notwithstanding anything to the
  
  contrary contained in any law for the time being in force or in any deed or other
  
  instrument establishing the provident fund but subject to the provisions, if
  
  any, contained in the Scheme, be transferred to the Fund established under the
  
  Scheme, and shall be credited to the accounts of the employees entitled thereto
  
  in the Fund.