Act Number: 16

Act Name: The Public Sector Iron and Steel Companies (Restructuring) and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1978

Year: 1978

Enactment Date: 1978-04-30

Long Title: An Act to provide for restructuring of the iron and steel companies in the public sector so as to secure better management and greater efficiency in their working and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.

Ministry: Ministry of Steel

Department:

Section 19: Provident Fund.
    Where a provident fund has been established by a dissolved company or any other company in respect of a transferred unit for the benefit of the employees and the same stands vested in a trust, the moneys and other assets standing to the credit of each provident fund shall continue to be held in trust with the same objects as were applicable before the appointed day and the trustees of such trusts immediately before the appointed day shall, subject to the provisions of the trust deeds and the rules relating to such trusts, continue to function as trustees in respect of such provident fund of the corresponding unit of the Integral Company or of other transferee company, as the case may be, as if this Act had not been passed:
     Provided that the right to nominate trustees and other rights relating to the trusts vested in the dissolved company or other company in respect of the transferred unit, as the case may be, shall vest in the Integral Company or other transferee company, as the case may be.
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