Section 7I, 7J Appeals to the Tribunal Procedure of Tribunals - Employees Provident Funds Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952

How to file Appeals to the Tribunal? What is the Procedure of Tribunals? Section 7I, 7J of Employees Provident Funds Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952

Appeals to the Tribunal and Procedure of Tribunals are defined under section 7I and 7J of Employees Provident Funds Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952. Provisions under Section 7I and 7J of EPF Act 1952 are :

Section 7I of Employees Provident Funds Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952 "Appeals to the Tribunal"

(1) Any person aggrieved by a notification issued by the Central Government, or an order passed by the Central Government, or any authority, under the proviso to sub-section 3, or sub-section4, of section I, or section3, or sub-section 1of section 7A, or section 7B except an order rejecting an application for review referred to in sub-section 5 thereof, or section 7C, or section 14B may prefer an appeal to a Tribunal against such order.

(2) Every appeal under sub-section 1 shall be filed in such form and manner, within such time and be accompanied by such fees, as may be prescribed.

Section 7J of Employees Provident Funds Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952 "Procedure of Tribunals"

(1) A Tribunal shall have power to regulate its own procedure in all matters arising out of the exercise of its powers or of the discharge of its functions including the places at which the Tribunal shall have its sittings.

(2) A Tribunal shall, for the purpose of discharging its functions, have all the powers which are vested in the officers referred to in section 7A and any proceeding before the Tribunal shall be deemed to be a judicial proceeding within the meaning of sections 193 and 228, and for the purpose of section 196, of the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860) and the Tribunal shall be deemed to be a civil court for all the purposes of section 195 and Chapter XXVI of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974).