Section 8:
Provident, superannuation, welfare and other funds.
(1) Where an existing insurer has
established a provident, superannuation, welfare or any other fund for the benefit of his employees and
constituted a trust in respect thereof (hereafter in this section referred to as an existing trust), the moneys
standing to the credit of such fund on the appointed day, together with any other assets belonging to such
fund, shall stand transferred to and vested in the Indian insurance company on the appointed day free
from any such trust.
(2) Where all the employees of the Life Insurance Corporation or any other existing insurer do not
become employees of an Indian insurance company, the monies and other assets belonging to any such
fund as is referred to in sub-section (1), shall be apportioned between the trustees of the fund and the
Indian insurance company in the prescribed manner; and in case of any dispute about such apportionment
the decision of the Central Government thereon shall be final.
(3) Where the undertaking of an existing insurer has vested in more than one Indian insurance
company, the Central Government may, by order, provide for the apportionment among such Indian
insurance companies of monies and other assets belonging to any existing trust relating to that
undertaking in such manner as in its opinion may be appropriate.
(4) The Indian insurance company shall as soon as may be after the appointed day constitute in
respect of the moneys and other assets which are transferred to and vested in it under this section one or
more trusts having objects as similar to the objects of the existing trusts as in the circumstances may be
practicable.
(5) Where all the moneys and other assets belonging to an existing trust are transferred to and vested
in an Indian insurance company under this section, the trustees of such trust shall, as from the appointed
day, stand discharged from the trust, except as respects things done or omitted to be done before the
appointed day.