(1) The Government may, by notification in the Gazette modify, add, delete or vary any Scheme framed under this Act either prospectively or retrospectively.
(2) Every notification under sub-section (1) shall be laid as soon as may be, after it is issued before the Legislative Assembly while it is in session for a total period of 14 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 agrees in making any modification in the notification or decides that the notification should not be issued, the notification shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be, so however that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that notification.
2. Membership.—(1) Every Non-Resident Keralite who has completed 18 years of age, but not completed 55 years of age, shall be entitled to register his name as a member of the Fund.
(2) Every Non-Resident Keralite, who has completed 18 years of age, but not completed 55 years of age and who has left Kerala for employment or otherwise and resides for more than six months in any place in India outside Kerala and continues there, is also entitled to register his name as a member of the Fund.
(3) Every Non-Resident Keralite (abroad) entitled to register under sub-section
(1) may register his name in the Fund immediately on obtaining the emigration clearance and before leaving the State in the manner provided in the Scheme.
(4) Every Non-Resident Keralite (India) entitled to register under sub-section
(2) may, if he wishes to do so, register his name within two months on attaining the eligibility for membership, in the manner provided in the Scheme.
(5) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-sections (3) and (4), the Non- Resident Keralites who left Kerala prior to the commencement of this Act and the Scheme thereunder, shall register their names to the Fund within such period and in such manner as may be prescribed in the Scheme.
(6) The registration fee in respect of the members shall be rupees two hundred:
Provided that the Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, revise the registration fee once in three years.
(7) Every registered member shall remit the contribution under section 4 within such period and intervals and in such manner as may be prescribed.