Section 5: Coal Mines Bonus Schemes.

(1) The Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, frame a scheme to be called the Coal Mines Bonus Scheme for the payment of bonus to employees and specify the coal mines to which the said scheme shall apply.

(2) A scheme framed under the provisions of sub-section (1) may provide for all or any of the matters specified in the Fourth Schedule. (3) The employer shall pay the bonus in accordance with the Scheme as aforesaid.