law: The Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority Act, 2013
  Chapter III Extent
  
  and Application
  12. Extent and
  
  application.
  1.  
  
    This
  
  Act shall apply to-
  a.   the National Pension
  
  System;
  b.   any other pension
  
  scheme not regulated by any other enactment.
  1.  
  
  
  2.  Every
  
  pension scheme referred to in clause (b) shall conform to the regulations made
  
  by the Authority within such time as may be specified in the regulations.
  3.  Notwithstanding
  
  anything contained in sub-section (1), the provisions of this Act shall not
  
  apply to-
  a.   the schemes or funds
  
  under-
   
  
   i.  
  
    the
  
  Coal Mines Provident Fund and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1948;
   
  
   ii.  
  
    the
  
  Employees' Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952;
   
  
   iii.  
  
    the
  
  Seamen's Provident Fund Act, 1966;
   
  
   iv.  
  
    the
  
  Assam Tea Plantations Provident Fund and Pension Fund Scheme Act, 1955; and
   
  
   v.  
  
    the
  
  Jammu and Kashmir Employees' Provident Funds Act, 1961;
  a.  
  
  
  b.   contracts referred to
  
  in sub-section (11) of section 2 of the Insurance Act, 1938;
  c.   any other pension
  
  scheme, which the Central Government may, by notification, exempt from the
  
  application of this Act;
  d.   persons appointed
  
  before the 1st day of January, 2004 to public services in connection with the
  
  affairs of the Union, or to All-India Services constituted under section 2A of
  
  the All-India Services Act, 1951;
  e.   persons appointed to
  
  public services in connection with the affairs of any State, or such Union
  
  territories as may be specified by notification by the Central Government.
  1.  
  
  
  2.  
  
  
  3.  
  
  
  4.  
  
    Notwithstanding
  
  anything contained in sub-section (3), any State Government or administrator of
  
  a Union territory may, by notification, extend the National Pension System to
  
  its employees.
  5.  Notwithstanding
  
  anything contained in clause (c) of sub-section (3), the Central Government
  
  may, by notification, extend the application of this Act to any other pension
  
  scheme [including any other pension scheme exempted and notified under clause
  
  (c) of sub-section (3)].
  6.  
  
    Any
  
  person governed under any of the schemes or funds referred to in sub-section
  
  (3) may, at his option, also join the National Pension System.