The ASSAM TEA PLANTATIONS PROVIDENT FUND AND PENSION FUND AND DEPOSIT LINKED INSURANCE FUND SCHEME (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2019
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###### No. 209 Dispur, Tuesday, 28th May, 2019, 7th Jaistha, 1941 (S. E.)

 GOVERNMENT OF ASSAM

 ORDERS BY THE GOVERNOR

 LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT : : : LEGISLATIVE BRANCH

 NOTIFICATION

 The 28th May, 2019

 No. LGL.24/1998/179.- The following Act of the Assam Legislative Assembly

 which received the assent of the Governor on 7th March, 2019 is hereby published for general

 information.

##### ASSAM ACT NO. V OF 2019

 (Received the assent of the Governor on 7th March, 2019)

#### THE ASSAM TEA PLANTATIONS PROVIDENT FUND AND
 PENSION FUND AND DEPOSIT LINKED INSURANCE
 FUND SCHEME (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2019


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##### 966 THE ASSAM GAZETTE, EXTRAORDINARY, MAY 28, 2019

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further to amend the Assam Tea Plantations Provident Fund
and Pension Fund and Deposit Linked Insurance Fund
Scheme Act, 1955

Preamble Whereas it is expedient further to amend the Assam Tea Assam Act X

Plantations Provident Fund and Pension Fund and Deposit of 1955
Linked Insurance Fund Scheme Act, 1955,
hereinafter referred to as the principal Act, in the manner
hereinafter appearing;

It is hereby enacted in the Seventieth Year of the
Republic of India as follows :-

Short title, I. (1) This Act may be called the Assam Tea Plantations
Extent and Provident Fund and Pension Fund and Deposit Linked
commencement Insurance Fund Scheme (Amendment) Act, 2019.

(2) It shall have the like extent as the principal Act.

(3) It shall come into force at once.

Amendment 2. In the principal Act, in section 3, in sub-section (I), in
###### of Section 3 between the words "Life Assurance coverage" and "for the",

the words "and health care assurance to the extent and in the
manner as may be specified in the Scherne" shall be inserted.

Amendment 3. In the principal Act, in the Schedule, in para 98,-
###### of the Schedule

(a) in sub-para (iii), for the words "forty thousand" appearing
after the words "more than rupees', the words "one lakh"
shall be substituted.

(b) in sub-para (v), for the punctuation mark"." appearing at
the end, the punctuation mark ";" shall be substituted,
and thereafter the following new sub-paras shall be
inserted, namely :-

"(vi) 'The health care assurance benefit to be provided by
the hospitals established under the Scheme to the
extent as may be determined by the Board of Trustees
under sub-para (viii) of this paragraph, which shall
be in addition t0 any other benefits as admissible to
them under the existing Health Care Schemes of the
State and the Central Governments, respectively;


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 (vii) The determination of the cost of administration and maintenance of such hospitals in consultation with the Government of Assam which shall be borne by the State Government;

 (viii) The limit of health care assurance to be claimed by an employee under sub-para (vi) which shall be within the limit as determined under this sub-paragraph by the Board of Trustees constituted under para 1 (a) of the Schedule to this Act, with the approval of the Government of Assam;

 (ix) The manner in which the requirement of land for construction of hospitals to be established under the Scheme is to be submitted to the Government of Assam, which the State Government is to provide subject to availability of Government land."

**S.** **M.** **BUZARBARUAH,**

###### Commissioner & Secretary to the Government of Assam, Legislative Department, Dispur, 'Guwahati-6.

Guwahati : Printed and Published by the Dy. Directors (P & S), Directorate of Printing & Stationery, Assam, Guwahati-21.

Extraordinary Gazette No. 417 - 300 + I 0 - 28 - 05                  - 2019. (visit at- dpns.assam.gov.in)


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