Para 2.01 — GPF_MANUAL

2.01 The General Provident Fund (Central Services ) Rules, 1960, which came in to effect from 1-4-1960, have been framed by Government of India under the powers conferred by the proviso to article 309 and clause (5) of article 148 of the constitution. Under the same provision, read with Section 81 (6) of the Bombay Re-organisation Act, 1960, the Gujarat Government has extended the Bombay General Provident Fund Rules through out the State of Gujarat. The Bombay General Provident Fund Rules so extended apply also to :- all persons appointed on or after 1-11-1956 to the services and posts in connection with the affairs:-

(i) of the State of Bombay as constituted on that dates and who have as from 1-5-60 continued to hold the same posts and offices in the State of Gujarat by virtue of the provisions of section 82 of the Bombay Re-organisation Act, 1960 or

(ii) of the State of Gujarat and falling within the category specified in Rule 4 of B.G.P.F. Rules.