D. A. DESAI, J. B. MEHTA, J.

( 1 ) THE petitioner No. 1 is a partnership firm and its partners petitioner 2 to 5 challenge in this petition the order of the Central Government dated November 7 1967 under sec. 19a of the Employees Provident Funds Act 1952 hereinafter referred to as the Act and the notices issued in pursuance to that decision requiring the petitioners to implement the provisions of the Act and the scheme in regard to their factory for manufacturing ophthalmic lenses. From April 1 1962 the petitioners factory began to employ the requisite number of 20 or more employees. Therefore the authorities imitated petitioner that they were bound to implement the Act and the scheme with effect from April 1 1962 This intimation was given to the petitioners on December 31 1965 There was some correspondence and ultimately the petitioners made an application to the Central Government under sec. 19a of the Act to determine this doubt as to whether the Act and the scheme applied to the petitioners factory. The Central Government considered the representations made by the petitioners and even further views expressed by the petitioners and finally gave the impugned decision on November 7

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