THE ALL INDIA SERVICES ACT, 1951

 

NO.LXI OF 1951

 

An Act to regulate the recruitment, and the conditions of service of persons appointed, to the all-India Services common to the Union and the States.

 

[29th October, 1951]

Contents

1.Short title

2.Definition

3.Regulation of recruitment and conditions of service

4.Continuance of existing rules

 

BE it enacted by parliament as follows:--

 

   

1.Short title

:--This  Act  may  be  called  the  All-India Services Act, 1951.

 

   

2.Definition

:--In this Act, the expression  "an  all-India Service'  means  the service known as the  Indian  Administrative Service or the service known as the Indian Police Service.

 

   

3.Regulation of recruitment and conditions of service

:--(1) The   Central  Government  may,  after  consultation   with   the Governments   of  the  States  concerned,  make  rules  for   the regulation  of  recruitment  and the  conditions  of  service  of persons appointed, to an all-India Service.

 

    (2)  All rules made under this section shall be  laid  for not less than fourteen days before Parliament as soon as possible after they are made, and shall be subject to such  modifications, whether by way of repeal or amendment, as parliament may make  on a motion made during the session in which they are so laid.

 

 

4.Continuance of existing rules

:--All   rules   in force immediately  before the commencement of this Act, and  applicable to  an all-India Service shall continue to be in force and  shall be deemed to be rules made under this Act.