Provident fund is another name for pension fund. Nepal and Sri Lanka have similar employees provident fund schemes. The Australian Mutual Provident Society began in 1849 as an organisation offering life insurance. Laws relating to charitable industrial and provident societies were revised. Pakistan has no contract Labor, Minimum Wage and Provident Funds Acts. He worked at Employees Provident Fund Organisation in Pattom and Akasahvani. Vanquis Bank is a subsidiary of the Provident Financial Group. Yorkshire Building Society, Santander Group and Provident Financial. The LIC absorbed 154 Indian and 16 non-Indian insurers and 75 provident societies. Most sources of payments are employers (via provident funds), and the government. Accordingly, close of the year 1951 witnessed the promulgation of the Employees' Provident Funds Ordinance. P B Sawant's picture instead of another judge in connection with the Provident Fund scam. Similar organisations were called industrial and provident societies. The entity now known as Sterling was founded in 1888 under the name Provident Bank. It later became a subsidiary of Provident New York Bancorp.