Recovery officer to whom certificate is to be forwarded is defined under section 8C of Employees Provident Funds Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952. Provisions under Section 8C of EPF Act 1952 are :
Section 8C of Employees Provident Funds Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952 "Recovery officer to whom certificate is to be forwarded"
(1) The authorised officer may forward the certificate referred to in section 8B to the Recovery Officer within whose jurisdiction the employer -
(a) carries on his business or profession or within whose jurisdiction the principal place of his establishment is situated; or
(b) resides or any movable or immovable property of the establishment or the employer is situated.
(2) Where an establishment or the employer has property
within the jurisdiction of more than one Recovery Officers
and the Recovery
Officer to whom a certificate is sent by the authorised
officer -
(a) is not able to recover the entire amount by the sale of the property movable or immovable, within his jurisdiction; or
(b) is of the opinion that, for the purpose of expediting or securing the recovery of the whole or any part of the amount, it is necessary so to do, he may send the certificate or, where only a part of the amount is to be recovered, a copy of the certificate certified in the prescribed manner and specifying the amount to be recovered to the Recovery Officer within whose jurisdiction the establishment or the employer has property or the employer resides, and thereupon that Recovery Officer shall also proceed to recover the amount due under this section as if the certificate or the copy thereof had been the certificate sent to him by the authorised officer.
Section 8 Mode of recovery of moneys due from employers
Section 8A Recovery of moneys by employers and contractors
Section 8B Issue of certificate to the Recovery Officer
Section 8C Recovery officer to whom certificate
Section 8D Validity of certificate, and amendment thereof
Section 8E Stay of proceedings under certificate and amendment or withdrawal thereof
Section 8F Other modes of recovery
Section 8G Application of certain provisions of Income-tax Act
Section 9 Fund to be recognised under Act 11 of 1922
Section 10 Protection against attachment
Section 12 Employer not to reduce wages, etc
Section 14A Offences by companies
Section 14B Power to recover damages
Section 14C Power of court to make orders
Section 15 Special provisions relating to existing provident funds
Section 16 Act not to apply to certain establishments
Section 18 Protection of Action taken in good faith
Section 19 Delegation of powers
Section 20 Power of Central Government to give directions
Section 21 Power to make rules
Section 22 Power to remove difficulties
Schedule I Matters of Industry engaged in Manufacture
Schedule II matters for which provision may be made in a scheme
Schedule III matters for which provision may be made in the pension scheme
Schedule IV matters to be provided in the employees deposit linked insurance scheme
Employees Provident Fund Appellate Tribunal (Procedure) Rules 1997