{"id":232016,"date":"2009-01-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-04T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/k-rajendran-vs-assistant-provident-fund-on-5-january-2009"},"modified":"2016-01-05T03:13:59","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T21:43:59","slug":"k-rajendran-vs-assistant-provident-fund-on-5-january-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/k-rajendran-vs-assistant-provident-fund-on-5-january-2009","title":{"rendered":"K.Rajendran vs Assistant Provident Fund … on 5 January, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"
Kerala High Court<\/div>\n
K.Rajendran vs Assistant Provident Fund … on 5 January, 2009<\/div>\n
       \n\n  \n\n  \n\n \n \n  IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM\n\nWP(C).No. 25080 of 2008(I)\n\n\n1. K.RAJENDRAN, PROPRIETOR,\n                      ...  Petitioner\n\n                        Vs\n\n\n\n1. ASSISTANT PROVIDENT FUND COMMISSIONER,\n                       ...       Respondent\n\n2. THE EMPLOYEES PROVIDENT FUND\n\n                For Petitioner  :SRI.E.K.NANDAKUMAR\n\n                For Respondent  :SRI.N.N.SUGUNAPALAN (SR.)\n\nThe Hon'ble MR. Justice S.SIRI JAGAN\n\n Dated :05\/01\/2009\n\n O R D E R\n                               S.SIRI JAGAN, J.\n                       ==================\n                         W.P(C).No.25080 of 2008\n                       ==================\n                 Dated this the 5th day of January, 2009\n\n                               J U D G M E N T\n<\/pre>\n
      The petitioner is a contractor engaged by M\/s.Kovalam Hotels<\/p>\n
Ltd., for certain work relating to horticulture and gardening on contract<\/p>\n
basis. The petitioner employs 28 personnel in his establishment and<\/p>\n
the petitioner is engaged in the business of rendering services of<\/p>\n
supplying expert personnel and therefore, is liable to be covered under<\/p>\n
Employees’ Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952.<\/p>\n
The petitioner submitted Ext.P5 application for coverage under the Act<\/p>\n
and allotment of code number. However, by Exts.P7 and P8 orders, the<\/p>\n
respondents have rejected the claim of the petitioner on the ground<\/p>\n
that the petitioner being an exclusive contractor for M\/s.Kovalam<\/p>\n
Hotels Ltd., is not entitled to be alloted a separate code number and<\/p>\n
the employees of the petitioner are liable to be covered under the code<\/p>\n
number alloted to M\/s.Kovalam Hotels Ltd. The petitioner is<\/p>\n
challenging Exts.P7 and P8 and seeking the following reliefs:<\/p>\n
       “(i)  call for the records leading to Exts.P7 and P8 orders and to
\n             quash the same by the issue of a writ of certiorari;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
       (ii)  issue a writ of mandamus or any other appropriate writ, order or
\n             direction, directing the first respondent to allot a code number
\n             in respect of the petitioner’s establishment in terms of Ext.P5
\n             application submitted by the petitioner;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
       (iii) pass an ad-interim order directing the first respondent to allot a
\n             code number in respect of the petitioner’s establishment Kairali
\n             Constructions, pending disposal of the Writ Petition;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
w.p.c.25080\/08                     2<\/span><\/p>\n
      2.     A counter affidavit has been filed by the respondents, in<\/p>\n
which they seek to sustain the impugned orders. According to them,<\/p>\n
the petitioner being an exclusive contractor of M\/s.Kovalam Hotels<\/p>\n
Ltd., which is a covered establishment under the Employees’ Provident<\/p>\n
Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act having a particular code<\/p>\n
number, a separate code number cannot be allotted to the contractor-<\/p>\n
employer, as his employees are covered already under the principal<\/p>\n
employer. They also rely on Section 8A of the Employees’ Provident<\/p>\n
Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act as also Paragraph 30 of the<\/p>\n
Employees Provident Funds Scheme in support of their contentions.<\/p>\n
      3.     I have heard the counsel on both sides.\n<\/p>\n
      4.     I am of opinion that every employer liable to be covered<\/p>\n
under the Employees’ Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act<\/p>\n
is entitled to be so covered separately under a separate code number.<\/p>\n
Simply because such employer is doing contract work exclusively on<\/p>\n
behalf of a principal employer, that does not disentitle the contractor-<\/p>\n
employer from having his establishment covered under the Act<\/p>\n
separately from the principal employer. The fact that the principal<\/p>\n
employer is covered under the Act under a specific code number and<\/p>\n
the contributions relating to the employees of the petitioner are also<\/p>\n
recovered from the principal employer is no reason to reject the<\/p>\n
request of the petitioner for separate coverage and allotment of<\/p>\n
w.p.c.25080\/08                        3<\/span><\/p>\n
separate code number. Neither Section 8A of the Employees’ Provident<\/p>\n
Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act           nor paragraph 30 of the<\/p>\n
Scheme prohibits such separate coverage and allotment of code<\/p>\n
number. Section 8A reads thus:\n<\/p>\n
             “8A. Recovery of moneys by employers and contractors.-
\n      (1) The amount of contribution (that is to say the employer’s
\n      contributions as well as the employee’s contribution in pursuance of
\n      any Scheme and the employer’s contribution in pursuance of the
\n      Insurance Scheme) and any charges for meeting the cost of
\n      administering the Fund paid or payable by an employer in respect of
\n      any employee employed by or through a contractor may be recovered
\n      bu such employer from the contractor, either by deduction from any
\n      amount payable to the contractor under any contract or as a debt
\n      payable by the contractor.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
             (2)    A contractor from whom the amounts mentioned in sub-
\n      section (1) may be recovered in respect of any employee employed by
\n      or through him, may recover from such employee the employee’s
\n      contribution under any Scheme by deduction from the basic wages,
\n      dearness allowance and retaining allowance (if any) payable to such
\n      employee.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
             (3)    Notwithstanding     any contract to the contrary, no
\n      contractor shall be entitled to deduct the employer’s contribution or
\n      the charges referred to in sub-section (1) from the basic wages,
\n      dearness allowance, and retaining allowance (if any) payable to an
\n      employee employed by or through him or otherwise to recover such
\n      contribution or charges from such employee.”\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Paragraph 30 of the Employees’ Provident Funds Scheme, 1952,<\/p>\n
reads thus:\n<\/p>\n
             “30. Payment of contributions.- (1) The employer shall, in
\n      the first instance, pay both the contribution payable by himself (in this
\n      Scheme referred to as the employer’s contribution) and also, on behalf
\n      of the member employed by him directly or by or through a
\n      contractor, the contribution payable by such member (in this Scheme
\n      referred to as the member’s contribution).\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
             (2)    In respect of employees employed by or through a<\/p>\n
w.p.c.25080\/08                        4<\/span><\/p>\n
      contractor, the contractor shall recover the contribution payable by
\n      such employee (in the Scheme referred to as the member’s
\n      contribution) and shall pay to the principal employer the amount of
\n      member’s contribution so deducted together with an equal amount of
\n      contribution (in this Scheme referred to as the employer’s
\n      contribution) and also administrative charges.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
             (3)   It shall be the responsibility of the principal employer to
\n      pay both the contribution payable by himself in respect of the
\n      employees directly employed by him and also in respect of the
\n      employees    employed     by  or   through    a  contractor   and  also
\n      administrative charges.”\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
These are provisions which enable the Provident Fund Organization to<\/p>\n
recover contributions relating to contract employees in the first<\/p>\n
instance from the principal employer. That is purely for the purpose<\/p>\n
easy recovery of contributions instead of going after the contractor.<\/p>\n
The primary liability to recover contributions from the contractor and<\/p>\n
to pay the same to the Provident Fund Organization is cast on the<\/p>\n
principal employer by the above provisions, with liberty to               the<\/p>\n
principal employer to recover such contributions paid by the principal<\/p>\n
employer from the amounts due from the principal employer to the<\/p>\n
contractor. That does not in any way stand in the way of the<\/p>\n
contractor-employer claiming coverage under the Act and allotment of<\/p>\n
separate code number. There is no provision of law anywhere in the<\/p>\n
Act or in the Scheme which empowers the Provident Fund Organization<\/p>\n
to refuse to allot separate code number to the contractor-employer for<\/p>\n
the coverage of his employees. The fact that the petitioner employer<\/p>\n
does contract work exclusively for one principal employer does not<\/p>\n
w.p.c.25080\/08                       5<\/span><\/p>\n
alter the situation in any manner. Whether the petitioner does contract<\/p>\n
work for one principal employer or different principal employers, is not<\/p>\n
a criterion to decide whether the contractor is entitled to be covered<\/p>\n
under the Act and entitled to separate code number. In so far as the<\/p>\n
establishment is one liable to be covered under the Act and the<\/p>\n
petitioner is an “employer” as defined under the Employees’ Provident<\/p>\n
Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act,       he is entitled to have his<\/p>\n
establishment and his employees covered under the Act separately.<\/p>\n
That being so, the petitioner is entitled to be alloted a separate code<\/p>\n
number on such coverage. Therefore Exts.P7 and P8 orders are totally<\/p>\n
erroneous and they are hereby quashed. Accordingly, the respondents<\/p>\n
are directed to cover the petitioner’s establishment and the employees<\/p>\n
employed by the petitioner under a separate code number pursuant to<\/p>\n
Ext.P5 application. Orders in this regard shall be passed within one<\/p>\n
month from the date of receipt of a certified copy of this judgment.<\/p>\n
      The writ petition is allowed as above.\n<\/p>\n
                                                     Sd\/-\n<\/p>\n
sdk+                                            S.SIRI JAGAN, JUDGE\n\n          \/\/\/True copy\/\/\/\n\n\n\n\n                               P.A. to Judge\n\nw.p.c.25080\/08    6\n\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Kerala High Court K.Rajendran vs Assistant Provident Fund … on 5 January, 2009 IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM WP(C).No. 25080 of 2008(I) 1. K.RAJENDRAN, PROPRIETOR, … Petitioner Vs 1. ASSISTANT PROVIDENT FUND COMMISSIONER, … Respondent 2. THE EMPLOYEES PROVIDENT FUND For Petitioner :SRI.E.K.NANDAKUMAR For Respondent :SRI.N.N.SUGUNAPALAN (SR.) The Hon’ble MR. Justice S.SIRI […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-court","category-kerala-high-court"],"yoast_head":"\nK.Rajendran vs Assistant Provident Fund ... on 5 January, 2009 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court & High Court | Legal India<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/k-rajendran-vs-assistant-provident-fund-on-5-january-2009\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"K.Rajendran vs Assistant Provident Fund ... on 5 January, 2009 - 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