Short title, extent and application.- (1) This Act may be called the Employees’ Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952. (2) It extends to the whole of India except the State of Jammu and Kashmir. (3) Subject to the provisions contained in section 16, it applies – (a) to every establishment which is a factory engaged in any industry specified in Schedule I and in which twenty or more persons are employed and
