Companies Act, 2017

PART-VII

MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS REGARDING INVESTMENTS, CONTRACTS OFFICERS AND SHAREHOLDINGS, TRADING AND INTERESTS

From: 2023-11-01 - To: 0000-00-00 218. Employees’ provident funds, contributory retirement funds and securities.- (1) All moneys or securities deposited with a company by its employees in pursuance of their contracts of service with the company shall be kept or deposited by the company within fifteen days from the date of deposit in a special account to be opened by the company for the purpose in a scheduled bank or in the National Saving Schemes, and no portion thereof shall be utilized by the company except for the breach of the contract of service on the part of the employee as provided in the contract and after notice to the employee concerned. (2) Where a provident fund, contributory pension fund or any other contributory retirement fund has been constituted by a company for its employees or any class of its employees, all moneys contributed to such fund, whether by the company or by the employees or by both, or received or accruing by way of interest, profit or otherwise from the date of contribution, receipt or accrual, as the case may be, shall either- (a) be deposited- (i) in a National Savings Scheme; (ii) in a special account to be opened by the company for the purpose in a scheduled bank; or (iii) where the company itself is a scheduled bank, in a special account to be opened by the company for the purpose either in itself or in any…