All-India Services Act, 1951

The All-India Services Act, 1951

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4 | BREED BREED BHEED fo) पर BREED 149 949 BREED The All-India Services Act, 1951 [ACT No. 61 OF 1951] (ds on the 2nd November, 2025) 1

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS USED

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The All-India Services (Amendment) Act, 1958 (25 of 1958). The All-India Services (Amendment) Act, 1963 (27 of 1963). The All-India Services Regulation (Indemnity) Act, 1975 (19 of 1975). The All-India Services (Amendment) Act, 1975 (23 of 1975). ________ LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS USED Cl.,cls. . . . . . for Clause, clauses. S., ss. . . . . . ,, Section, sections. Subs. . . . . . ,, Substituted. w.e.f. . . . . . ,, with effect from.

THE ALL-INDIA SERVICES ACT, 1951

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THE ALL-INDIA SERVICES ACT, 1951 ________ ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS _________ SECTIONS 1. Regulation of recruitment and conditions of service.

[2A. Other All-India Services.—With effect from such date as the Central Government may,

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Section 1 — Short title.—This Act may be called the All-India Services Act, 1951. 2. Definition

Section 2A — Other All-India Services

Section 3 — The Indian Medical and Health Service.] 3. Regulation of recruitment and conditions of service

Section 4 — Continuance of existing rules

THE ALL-INDIA SERVICES ACT, 1951 ACT NO. 61 OF 1951 [29th October, 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. Short title.—This Act may be called the All-India Services Act, 1951. Other All-India Services.—With effect from such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint in this behalf, there shall be constituted the following All-India Services and different dates may be appointed for different services, namely:— 1. Regulation of recruitment and conditions of service.—(1) The Central Government may, 3 4 after consultation with the Governments of the States concerned, *** [and by notification in the Official Gazette] make rules for the regulation of recruitment, and the conditions of service of persons appointed to an All-India Service. 5 [(1A) The power to make rules conferred by this section shall include the power to give retrospective effect from a date not earlier than the date of commencement of this Act, to the rules or any of them but no retrospective effect shall be given to any rule so as to prejudicially affect the interests of any person to whom such rule may be applicable.] 6 [(2) Every rule made by the Central Government under this section and every regulation made under or in pursuance of any such rule, shall be laid, as soon as may be after such rule or regulation is made, before each House of Parliament while it is in session for a total period of thirty days which may be comprised in one session or in two or more successive sessions, and if, before the expiry of the session immediately following the session or the successive sessions aforesaid, both Houses agree in making any modification in such rule or regulation or both Houses agree that such rule or regulation should not be made, the rule or regulation shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be; so, however, that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that rule or regulation.] 4.

STATEMENT OF OBJECTS AND REASONS

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STATEMENT OF OBJECTS AND REASONS Article 312 of the Constitution provides that Parliament may by law regulates recruitment, and the conditions of service of persons appointed, to the all-India Services common to the Union and the States. At present there are two such all-India Services, namely, the Indian Administrative Service and the Indian Police Service. In the absence of any proviso to article 312 similar to that included in article 309, the Government of India is now compelled to deal with many of these matters by means of non-statutory executive orders. This is neither satisfactory nor quite justifiable. Before the commencement of the Constitution, the Government of India issued the Indian Civil Administrative Cadre Rules and the Indian Police Service Cadre Rules. Although these Rules, in so far as they are not inconsistent with the Constitution, are continued in force by article 313 of the Constitution, they authorise the regulation of only such items relating to the conditions of service as had already been settled.