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Friday 15 July 2016

Date : 15.7.2016

WHO ARE ELIGIBLE FOR GPF


Rule-4: CONDITIONS OF ELIGIBILITY
4. Conditions of eligibility - All temporary Government servants after a continuous
service of one year, all re-employed pensioners (other than those eligible for admission to
the Contributory Provident Fund) and all permanent Government servants shall
subscribe to the Fund:
Provided that no such servant as has been required or permitted to subscribe to a
Contributory Provident Fund shall be eligible to join or continue as a subscriber to the
Fund, while he retains his right to subscribe to such a Fund:
Provided further that a temporary Government servant, who is borne on an
establishment or factory to which the provisions of Employees' Provident Funds Scheme,
1952, framed under the Employees' Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act,
1952 (19 of 1952), would apply or would have applied but for the exemption granted
under Section 17 of the said Act, shall subscribe to the General Provident Fund if he has
completed six months' continuous service or has actually worked for not less than 120
days during a period of six months or less in such establishment or factory or in any other
establishment or factory to which the said Act applies, under the same employer or partly
in one and partly in the other.
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[Provided also that nothing contained in these rules shall apply to Government
servant appointed on or after the 1
st day of January, 2004.]
EXPLANATION. - For the purposes of this rule "continuous service" shall have
the same meaning assigned to it in the Employees' Provident Funds Scheme, 1952, and
the period of work for 120 days shall be computed in the manner specified in the said
scheme and shall be certified by the employer.
NOTE 1.- Apprentices and Probationers shall be treated as temporary Government
servants for the purpose of this rule.
NOTE 2.- A temporary Government servant who completes one year of continuous
service during the middle of a month shall subscribe to the Fund from the subsequent month.
NOTE 3.- Temporary Government servants (including Apprentices and Probationers)
who have been appointed against regular vacancies and are likely to continue for more than a
year may subscribe to the General Provident Fund any time before completion of one year's

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