2. Amendment of section 3 of Act…

Section 3 of the Employees’ Provident Fund Act, No.

15 of 1958, (hereinafter referred to as the “principal enactment”) is hereby amended by the insertion immediately after subsection (1) of that section, of the following new subsection:—

“(1A) Where an employee becomes a member of the

Fund established under subsection (1), the

Commissioner-General of Labour shall assign an identification number to such employee and employer in the prescribed manner.”.