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Regional Provident Fund Commissioner, in which the High Court found that a company employing only four workers was voluntarily subject to an application under section 1(4) by law, later, when the employer was reconstituted as a partnership, the employer and the employees applied for exemption from liability under the Act. The High Court ruled that, notwithstanding the establishment of the employer of an owner to a partnership, a majority of workers wishing to resign from liability under the law with the employer are required by the authorities to release it. Thus, Article 1(4) provides for a voluntary possibility of making the law applicable. Article 1(5) of the Law provides that an establishment to which that law applies remains subject to that law, notwithstanding the fact that the number of persons working there falls at any time below twenty.