Act Number: 36

Act Name: The Code on Social Security, 2020

Year: 2020

Enactment Date: 2020-09-28

Long Title: 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.

Ministry: Ministry of Labour and Employment

Department:

Section 18: Fund to be recognised under Act 43 of 1961.
    For the purposes of the Income-tax Act, 1961, the Provident Fund shall be deemed to be a recognised provident fund within the meaning of clause (38) of section 2 of that Act:
    Provided that nothing contained in the said Act shall operate to render ineffective any provision of the Provident Fund Scheme (under which the Provident Fund is established) which is repugnant to any of the provisions of that Act or of the rules made thereunder.
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