law: Employee's Provident Funds Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952
  1. Short title, extent and application
   2  [(1) This Act may be called the Employees'
  
  Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952.]
  (2) It extends to the whole of India except
  
  the State of Jammu and Kashmir.
  (3) Subject to the provisions contained in
  
  section 16, it applies
  (a) to every establishment
  
  which is a factory engaged in any industry specified in Schedule I and in which
  
  4[twenty] or more persons are employed, and
  (b) to any other
  
  establishment employing [twenty] or more persons or class of such
  
  establishments which the Central Government may, by notification in the
  
  Official Gazette, specify in this behalf:
  PROVIDED that the Central Government may, after
  
  giving not less than two months' notice of its intention so to do, by
  
  notification in the Official Gazette, apply the provisions of this Act to any
  
  establishment employing such number of persons less than [twenty] as may be
  
  specified in the notification.]
  (4) Notwithstanding anything contained in
  
  sub-section (3) of this section or sub-section (1) of section 16, where it
  
  appears to the Central Provident Fund Commissioner, whether on an application
  
  made to him in this behalf or otherwise, that the employer and the majority of
  
  employees in relation to any establishment have agreed that the provisions of
  
  this Act should be made applicable to the establishment, he may, by
  
  notification in the Official Gazette, apply the provisions of this Act to that
  
  establishment on and from the date of such agreement or from any subsequent
  
  date specified in such agreement.]
  (5) An establishment to which this Act applies
  
  shall continue to be governed by this Act notwithstanding that the number of
  
  persons employed therein at any time falls below twenty.]