1. Short title, extent and commencement
(1)
This Act may be called the Provident Funds Act, 1925.
(2)
It extends to the whole of India [except the State of Jammu and Kashmir*] ***.
(3)
It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.
Amendment notes (4)
- Subs . Subs. by Act 3 of 1851, s. 3 and Schedule, for "except Part B States".
- omitted . The words "including British Baluchistan" omitted by the A.O. 1948.
- . 1st April, 1926, Gazette of India, 1925, Pt. I, p. 1182.
- . Vide Notification No. S.O. 3912 (E), dated 30th October, 2019, this Act is made applicable to the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir and the Union territory of Ladakh.