IREC Rule No.904: Compulsory Subscribers

904. Compulsory subscribers:-

All Railway servants except-

(i)   Those who are re-employed after final retirement from Government service ; and

(ii)    Those whose services were pensionable even before 16.11.1957, the date of introduction of Pension Scheme on the Railway;

Shall subscribe to the fund, in accordance with these rules either from the 1^st of the month following that in which they complete one year’s continuous service or from the date of confirmation, whichever is earlier. Provided that;

(a)  Probationers to Railway services, Group ‘A’ and Group ‘B’ shall subscribe from the date of appointment;

(b)  A person, who is subscribing to a Provident Fund administered by another Department / Ministry of the Central Government or a State Government or a body corporate owned or controlled by Government or an autonomous organization registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860 on the date of his appointment under the administrative control of the Ministry of Railways (Railway Board) and in whose case the amount in his old Provident Fund is transferred to the State Railway Provident Fund under rule 942(A), shall subscribe to the Fund from the date of joining Railway service; and

(c)   In the case of a Railway servant not eligible to get Government contribution, no subscription shall be recovered on the arrears of emoluments admissible to him consequent on re-fixation of his pay etc, with retrospective effect and paid to him after his retirement from service.

(d)  A temporary railway servant, who is borne on an establishment or factory to which the provisions of Employees Provident Funds and Family Pension Fund 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 State Railway 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 to which the said Act applies, under the same employee or partly in the other, or has been declared permanent whichever date is the earliest .  

(iii)   Those who enter service on or after 1^st January, 2004.

[Authority: RBE No.226/2003, No.F(E)III/2003/PF-1/3, 31.12.2003, ACS No.89]

Explanation: For the purpose of this rule ‘Continuous Service’ shall have the same meaning assigned to it in the Employees’ Provident Fund 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 .

[Authority: No.F(E)III/76-PF-1/7, 28.12.1976]