Section 3 — Coal Mines Provident Fund Scheme

(1) The Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, frame a scheme to be called the Coal Mines Provident Fund Scheme a for the establishment of a provident fund for [employees] and specify the coal mines to which the said scheme shall apply.

[(1A) The Fund shall vest in, and be administered by, the Board constituted under section 3A.]

(2) Any scheme framed under the provisions of sub-section (1) may provide for all or any of the matters specified in the First Schedule.