(1) As soon as may be after the commencement of this Act. The Government may after consulting the Board direct by general or special order published in the Gazette that such of the officers and employees serving immediately before the notified date in connection with the affairs of the State as are specified in the order shall be deputed to the Board on and with effect from such date and subject to such terms and conditions, if any as may be specified in the order.
Provided that no such order shall be issued in respect of any officer or employee without his consent for such deputation.
(2) The Officers and employees so deputed to the Board may permanently be absorbed in the services of the board provided they give consent to that effect in writing.
(3) On and with effect from the date the officers and other employees give consent as aforesaid shall become employees of the board and shall cease to be officers or employees of the Government;
Provided that the conditions of service as applicable to any such person immediately before the date specified in the order made under sub-section (1) shall not be varied to his disadvantage.
(4) The moneys standing to the credit under the provident Fund account of any officer or employee permanently absorbed in the Board shall stand transferred to and vest in the Board.
(5) The Board shall as soon as may be , constitute, in respect of the moneys transferred to and vested in it under sub-section (4) a similar fund and may invest the accumulations under the fund in such securities and subject to such conditions as may be specified by the Board with the approval of the Government.
Appoint ment of officers and staff by the Board.
Deputatio n of certain officers and staff to Board.
21. The Government or any officer authorized by them in this behalf, may call for and examine the records of the Board for the purpose of supervising the working of the Board any may pass such orders as they or, as the case may be he may think fit.
22. Any sum Payable into the Fund under this Act shall without prejudice to any other mode of recovery be recoverable on behalf of the Board as an arrear of land revenue:
Provided that Government May confer power as it may feel expedient so to do on such officers as it deems fit to realize dues payable to the fund under the provision contained under section 15 of the Payment of Wages Act, 1936 to the extent the dues are recoverable from the employer.
23. Any person who willfully obstructs an Inspector in the exercise of his powers or discharge of his duties under this Act and the rules or falls to produce for inspection on demand by an inspector any register, record or other document maintained in pursuance of the provisions of this Act or the rules or to supply to him on demand true copies of any such document shall, on conviction, be punished,-
(a) for the first offence, with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three months or with the fine which may extend to five hundred rupees or with both; and
(b) for a second or subsequent offence, with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees, or with both
Provided that in the absence of special and adequate reasons to the contrary to be mentioned in the judgment of the Court in any case where the offenders is sentenced to fine only, the amount of shall not be less than fifty rupees.