(1) The Government may, by notification in the Gazette, frame a scheme to be called the Kerala Cashew Workers Relief and Welfare Fund Scheme for the establishment of a Fund under this Act and there shall be established, as soon as may be after the framing of the scheme, a Fund to be called the Kerala Cashew Workers Relief and Welfare Fund, in accordance with the provisions of this Act and the scheme.
(2) There shall be credited to the Fund—
(a) the contributions to be paid by 2[the Government, employers and employees] under section 5;
(b) any voluntary donations;
(c) grants or advances made by the Central Government or the Government of Kerala or any local authority; and
(d) any other amount which, under the provisions of the scheme, shall be credited to the Fund.
(3) The Fund shall vest in, and be administered by, the Board.
(4) Subject to the provision of this Act, the scheme may provide for all or any of the matters specified in the Schedule.
2 Substituted by Act 2 of 1988 (w.e.f 28-01-1988).
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(5) The scheme shall be laid, as soon as may be, after it is framed, before the Legislative Assembly while it is in session for a total period of fourteen days which may be comprised in one session or in two successive sessions and if before the expiry of the session in which it is so laid or the session immediately following, the Legislative Assembly makes any modification in the scheme, the scheme shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form; so however that any such modification shall be without prejudice to the validity of any thing previously done under the scheme.