Section 40: Documentation and Registration of Contributors Receiving Social Security

1) Contributors receiving Social Security shall be included in the database system as specified by the Committee.

2) For the purpose of sub-section (1), the Committee shall receive information and personal details from all kinds of documentation systems available in Nepal.

Explanation: For this section, ‘all types of documentation system available in Nepal’ means the vital events registration records at the local level; details, including photographs and other bio data, compiled in the voters list prepared by the Election Commission; details developed for national identity card; details developed for the poor household identity card; records of personal details of contributors in the Employees Provident Fund; Citizens’ Investment Fund; civil, teachers, police, armed police and army kitabkhana (archives); and in private schools, public corporations and all industries, company, associations, firms or enterprises established as per prevalent law.

3) Notwithstanding whatsoever is mentioned in the prevailing law, the Fund shall have access to all types of database systems established in Nepal for personal details of individuals during the process of registration and enlistment of those individuals to the Fund.