Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires:- (a) 'Chairman' means the Chairman of the Tribunal; (b) 'Civil servant' means a person who is or has been a member of a civil service or who holds or has held a civil post in connection with the affairs of the State of Assam and includes any such person on foreign service, a person whose services have been temporarily placed at the disposal of a local or other authority, ·any person in the service of a local or other authority whose services have been temporarily placed at the disposal of the State Government, a person in service un<ier the State Government ou a contract and a person who has retired from the Government service elsewhere and has been re-employed under the State Government but does not include employees of the Gauhati High Court, employees of the Assam Legis- lative Assembly Secretariat, employees of the Assam Public Service Commission, persons in the All India Service and other Civil services of the Indian Union, or persons of Civil services of other State Govern- ment servin~ on deputation in Assam ; THE ASSAM GAZETTE, EXTRAORDINARY, MAY 2, 1971'. · 317 ~ ( c) 'civil services' means the civil services of the State of Assam and such , other services as may be speci- fied by the State Government from time to time by notification, but shall not include- (i) services under the Gauhati High Court ; (ii) services uncle~ the Assam Legislative Assembly; (iii) services under the Assam Public Service Commis- sion; (iv) All India Services and other civil services of the Indian Union ; (d) 'competent authority' means any officer or other authority having power to pass any order whether oriainal, appellate or rcvisional, under any service ru le, executive instruction or order, ·general or special, of the State Government in respect of any con- ditions of services of a civil servant; • ' T (e) 'conditions of service' includes all matters relatina to the- (i) appointment, seniority, confirmation and termina- tion of service of a civil servant ; (ii) censure, withholding of increments or promotion, recovery from pay of any loss to the Government, reduction to a lower service, arade or post, or to a lower time scale, or to a lower staae in a time scale, denial or variation of pension or denial of the maximum pension; (f) 'member' means a member of the Tribunal and in- cludes the Chairman; (g) 'notification' means a notification published in the . As•am Gazette ; (h) 'prescribed' means prescribed by rules made under this Act; (i) 'State Government' means the Government of Assam; (j) 'Tribunal' means the Assam Administrative Tribunal constituted under Section 3 of this Act. '. · ·.1 Cons ti tu• , 11 · f tion of the