Contribution

(1) Every employee shall contribute a sum exceeding ten rupees, per year, as may be prescribed, from time to time, to the Fund and every employer shall, in respect of each such employee, contribute a sum exceeding twenty rupees, per year, as may be prescribed, from time to time, to the fund and the Government may, in respect of each such employee, contribute such sum if any, per year, as may be prescribed, from time to time, to the Fund. (2) Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force, but subject to the provisions of this Act and any rules made thereunder, the employer shall be entitled to recover from the employee the employee’s contribution by deduction from his wages in such manner as may be prescribed and such deduction shall be deemed to be a deduction authorised by or under the Payment of Wages Act, 1936 (Central Act 4 of 1936).