TAMIL NADU GOVERNMENT SER VANTS …

1 FOR OFFICE USE ONLY. TAMIL nadu GOVERNMENT servants (CONDITIONS. OF SERVICE) ACT, 2016. TAMIL nadu ACT NO. 14 OF 2016. [As Published in Part IV-Section 2 of the TAMIL nadu GOVERNMENT Gazette Extraordinary dated the 15th September 2016 (Issue No. 207)]. PERSONNEL AND ADMINISTRATIVE REFORMS(S) DEPARTMENT. SECRETARIAT, CHENNAI-600 009. 1. THE TAMIL nadu GOVERNMENT servants . (CONDITIONS OF SERVICE) ACT, 2016. ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS. SECTIONS. 1. Short title and commencement. 2. Application. 3. Definitions. 4. Classification.

2 5. Pay, allowances, leave, leave salary, pension and other conditions of service. 6. Cadre. 7. Approved candidates. 8. Application fee for recruitment. 9. Method of recruitment. 10. Right of probationers and approved probationers to re-appointment. 11. Discharge and re-appointment of probationers, approved probationers and full members. 12. Members absent from duty. 13. Right to be a probationer or approved probationer, in two or more services. 14. Service right in former service. 15. Age concession for appointment on compassionate grounds.

3 16. Employment concession for outstanding Scouts. 17. Temporary appointments. 18. Recruitment to posts, which are outside the purview of the Commission. 19. Appointment by agreement. 20. Qualifications. 21. Linguistic qualification. 22. Language Test. 23. Special provisions relating to certain degrees. 24. Exemption from special qualification to be acquired or special test to be passed during probation. 25. Special qualifications. 26. Appointment of women. 27. Reservation of appointments. 28. Date of commencement of probation of persons first appointed temporarily.

4 29. Service in a different service counting for probation. 30. Completion of probation and drawal of arrears of increment. 31. Termination or extension of probation. 32. Probationer's suitability for full membership. 33. Extension of probation. 2. 34. Exercise of certain powers of appointing authority by higher authorities. 35. Exercise of certain powers of appointing authority by lower authorities. 36. Appeal against discharge. 37. Appointment of full members. 38. Appointment as full member, discharge and re-appointment of member who are not probationers or approved probationers.

5 39. Penalty for failure to pass prescribed test. 40. Fixation of seniority. 41. Promotion. 42. Appointment to higher category not to be considered if he had been on leave for three or four years or more continuously. 43. Appointment by recruitment by transfer. 44. Promotion or recruitment by transfer during extension of service. 45. Revision of list of approved candidates for appointment by promotion or by recruitment by transfer. 46. Annulment or modification of list of approved candidates for appointment or promotion by GOVERNMENT .

6 47. Temporary promotion. 48. Posting and transfer. 49. Consequence of resignation. 50. Acceptance of resignation. 51. Military duty to count for pension. 52. Reversion and re-appointment of full member. 53. Appointment in place of members dismissed, removed, compulsorily retired or reduced in rank. 54. Savings. 55. Re-employment of pensioners. 56. Appointment of All India Service Officers to State posts. 57. Relinquishment of rights by members. 58. Power to deal with certain cases. 59. Alteration of date of birth. 60.

7 Correction of date of birth. 61. Age concession for discharged GOVERNMENT employees or temporary GOVERNMENT employees. 62. Application of adhoc rules. 63. Concession for Ex-servicemen. 64. Age concession for Differently abled. 65. Age concession for persons affected due to the ban on direct recruitment. 66. Appeal or Review. 67. Committee on Appeals. 3. 68. Overriding effect of special rules. 69. Application of certain rules. 70. Validation. 71. Special provisions. 72. Power to remove difficulties. 73. Power to amend Schedules.

8 SCHEDULE-I. SCHEDULE-II. SCHEDULE-III. SCHEDULE-IV. SCHEDULE-V. SCHEDULE-VI. SCHEDULE-VII. SCHEDULE-VIII. SCHEDULE-IX. SCHEDULE-X. SCHEDULE-XI. SCHEDULE-XII. 4. The following Act of the TAMIL nadu Legislative Assembly received the assent of the Governor on the 14th September 2016 and is hereby published for general information: . ACT No. 14 OF 2016. An Act to regulate the Service conditions of the TAMIL nadu GOVERNMENT servants . BE it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of TAMIL nadu in the Sixty-seventh Year of the Republic of India as follows.

9 Short title and 1. (1) This Act may be called the TAMIL nadu GOVERNMENT servants Commence- (Conditions of Service) Act, 2016. ment. (2) Sub-section (1) of section 40 shall be deemed to have come into force on the 1st January 1955 and all the remaining provisions of this Act shall come into force at once. Application 2. This Act shall apply to the holders of all posts, whether temporary or permanent, in all State and Subordinate Services except to the extent otherwise expressly provided . (a) by or under any law for the time being in force; or (b) in respect of any member of such service by a contract or agreement subsisting between such member and the GOVERNMENT .

10 Definitions. 3. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, . (a) appointed by transfer means appointment of a member of a service from one category to another category in the same service carrying identical scale of pay or pay band;. (b) appointed to a service means when a person appointed in accordance with this Act or in accordance with the rules applicable at the time, as the case may be, discharges, for the first time the duties of a post borne on the cadre of such service or commences the probation, instruction or training prescribed for members thereof.