law: Employees’ State Insurance Act, 1948
  28. Purposes for which the fund may be expended
  Subject to the provisions of this Act and of any rules made by
  
  the Central Government in that behalf, the Employees’ State Insurance Fund
  
  shall be expended only for the following purposes, namely:-
  (i) payment of benefits and provision of medical treatment and
  
  attendance to insured persons and, where the medical benefit is extended to
  
  their families, the provision of such medical benefit to their families, in
  
  accordance with the provisions of this Act and defraying the charges and costs
  
  in connection therewith;
  (ii) payment of fees and allowances to members of the
  
  Corporation, the Standing Committee and the Medical Benefit Council, the
  
  regional boards, local committees and regional and local Medical Benefit
  
  Councils;
  (iii) payment of salaries, leave and joining time allowances,
  
  traveling and compensatory allowances, gratuities and compassionate allowances,
  
  pensions, contributions to provident or other benefit fund of officers and
  
  servants of the Corporation and meeting the expenditure in respect of offices
  
  and other services set up for the purpose of giving effect to the provisions of
  
  this Act;
  (iv) establishment and maintenance of hospitals, dispensaries
  
  and other institutions and the provisions of medical and other ancillary
  
  services for the benefit of insured persons and, where the medical benefit is
  
  extended to their families, their families;
  (v) payment of contributions to any 62[State
  
  Government,] 63[***] local authority or any private body or
  
  individual, towards the cost of medical treatment and attendance provided to
  
  insured persons and, where the medical benefit is extended to their families,
  
  their families including the cost of any building and equipment in accordance
  
  with any agreement entered into by the Corporation;
  (vi) defraying the cost (including all expenses) of auditing the
  
  accounts of the Corporation and of the valuation of its assets and liabilities;
  (vii) defraying the cost (including all expenses) of the
  
  Employees’ State Insurance Courts set up under this Act;
  (viii) payment of any sums under any contract entered into for
  
  the purposes of this Act by the Corporation or the Standing Committee or by any
  
  officer duly authorized by the Corporation or the Standing Committee in that
  
  behalf;
  (ix) payment of sums under any decree, order or award of any
  
  Court or Tribunal against the Corporation or any of its officers or servants
  
  for any act done in the execution of his duty or under a compromise or
  
  settlement of any suit or other legal proceeding or claim instituted or made
  
  against the Corporation;
  (x) defraying the cost and other charges of instituting or
  
  defending any civil or criminal proceedings arising out of any action taken
  
  under this Act;
  (xi) defraying expenditure, within the limits prescribed, on
  
  measures for the improvement of the health and welfare of insured persons and
  
  for the rehabilitation and re-employment of insured persons who have been
  
  disabled or injured; and
  (xii) such other purposes as may be authorized by the
  
  Corporation with the previous approval of the Central Government.