Employees’ Provident Fund (Amendment) Act 2021

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s 1Short title and date of operation

This Act may be cited as the Employees’ Provident

Fund (Amendment) Act, No. 23 of 2021 and shall come into operation on such date as the Minister may appoint by Order published in the Gazette.

s 2Amendment of section 47 of Act, No. 15 of 1958

Section 47 of the Employees’ Provident Fund Act,

No. 15 of 1958 is hereby amended as follows:—

(1)

in the definition of “employee”, by the substitution for the words “at any particular time;” of the words

“at any particular time, and does not include a detached worker for the period of time specified in a social security agreement applicable to such detached worker;”;

(2)

immediately after the definition of the expression

“covered employment”, by the insertion of the following new definition:—

“ “ detached worker” means an international worker on a temporary assignment in covered employment in Sri Lanka and contributing to a social security programme in the country in which he is a citizen and who in terms of a social security agreement has been exempted from making any contribution under this

Act for the period as set out in such agreement;”;

(3)

immediately after the definition of “employer”, by the insertion of the following new definition:—

“ “ international worker” means, an employee who is a citizen of a country other than

Sri Lanka;”;

(4)

immediately after the definition of “regulation”, by the insertion of the following new definition:—

“ “ Social Security Agreement” means a bilateral agreement to which Sri Lanka is a party and which provides exemptions to citizens of one country working in another country, on temporary assignment as detached workers, from contributing to a social security programme in such other country;”.

s 3Sinhala text to prevail in case of inconsistency

In the event of any inconsistency between the Sinhala and Tamil texts of this Act, the Sinhala text shall prevail.