Section 144
Power to defer or reduce.
The Code on Social Security, 2020
About this Act
An Act to amend and consolidate the laws relating to social security with the goal to extend social security to all employees and workers either in the organised or unorganised or any other sectors and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
Notwithstanding anything contained in Chapter III or Chapter IV,
the Central Government may by order, defer or reduce employer's contribution, or employee's contribution,
or both, payable under Chapter III or Chapter IV, as the case may be, for a period up to three months at a
time, in respect of establishment to which Chapter III or Chapter IV, as the case may be, applies, for whole
of India or part thereof in the event of pandemic, endemic or national disaster