[Provided that different Schemes shall be put into operation in relation to different periods of emergency.]

(2)

The Scheme shall secure that any liability of the Central Government as insurer under the Scheme is determined by a policy of insurance issued in the prescribed form by a person acting on behalf of the Central Government.

(3)

The Scheme may provide that it shall come into operation or shall be deemed to have come into operation on such date as may be specified therein.

(4)

The Scheme may be amended at any time by the Central Government.

(5)

Without prejudice to the generality of the provisions of sub-section (1), the Scheme may-

(a) make provisions regulating the payment of the compensation payable under this Act and the Scheme, including provisions for punishment by fine not exceeding two thousand rupees for the contravention of any requirement of the Scheme;

(b) make provisions specifying the persons to whom and the proportions and manner in which payments under this Act shall be made;

(c) make provisions for determining the value in lump sum of the amount payable under the Personal Injuries (Emergency Provisions) Act, 1962 (59 of 1962);

(d) specify conditions or circumstances which will disentitle a workman to the compensation payable under this Act, and make it an express or implied condition of any policy of insurance issued under this Scheme that the payment of compensation in defiance of such specification is not covered by the policy;

(e) specify the conditions or circumstances under which the compensation payable to a workman may be withheld, cancelled, reduced or reviewed if the award made under the Scheme made under the Personal Injuries (Emergency Provisions) Act, 1962 (59 of 1962), is withheld, cancelled, reduced or reviewed;

(f) provide for cases in which an employer has of his own accord undertaken a part or the whole of the liability imposed by this Act;

(g) provide for the final assessment of the total premium due on a policy of insurance under the Scheme either as the equivalent of all advance payments of premium already made by an employer, or as a percentage of the total wages bills of an employer for the periods with reference to which the amount of any advance payments made by him was fixed or as a percentage of the total wages bill of an employer for a period of not less than twelve or more than fifteen months immediately, preceding the expiry of the period of the emergency, and for the assessment of the total premium due on a policy which has ceased to be in force before the expiry of the period of the emergency owing to the employer having gone out of business;

(h) provide for the recovery from an employer of the total premium due on a policy of insurance including provision for its recovery by periodic advance payments of an amount based on a percentage of his total wages bill for any prescribed period, the separate finding of the payments so made by each employer, and the eventual adjustment of the total premium as finally assessed against the total of such periodic payments: