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Substituted by Haryana Act 14 of 2019. Short title, commencement and application. Definitions. SERVICE OF ENGINEERS, GROUP A, PUBLIC HEALTH ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT made according to the terms and provisions of this Act, to an officiating vacancy of a cadre post in Service; (b) “Assistant Executive Engineer” means a member of the Service in the junior scale of pay; (c) “Appendix” means Appendix annexed to this Act; (d) “cadre post” means a permanent post in the Service; (e) “Chief Engineer” means a Chief Engineer of the Department and includes a post declared by the Government as equivalent; (f) “Commission” means the Haryana Public Service Commission or any other authority notified by the Government; (g) “competent authority” means such officer or authority, as the Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint, to perform the functions of a competent authority under this Act; (h) “Department” means the Public Health Engineering Department; (i) “direct appointment” means an appointment by open competition but does not include— (i) an appointment by promotion; and (ii) an appointment by transfer of an officer already in the service of a State Government or Central Government; Explanation.—A Group B Officer who enters the Service by open competitive selection, shall, for the purposes of this Act, be deemed to have entered the Service by direct appointment; (j) “Engineer-in-Chief” means an Engineer-in-Chief of the Department and includes a post declared by the Government as equivalent; (k) “ex-cadre post” means a temporary post not included in the Service, appointment on which confers no right to seniority; (l) “Executive Engineer” means an officer-in-charge of a Division; SERVICE OF ENGINEERS, GROUP A, PUBLIC HEALTH ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT (m) “Government” means the Government of the State of Haryana in the Administrative Department; (n) “Group B Service” means the Haryana Service of Engineers, Group B in Public Health Engineering Department; (o) “member of the Service” means an officer appointed substantively to a cadre post and includes,— (i) in the case of a direct appointment, an officer on probation or such an officer who, having successfully completed his probation, awaits appointment to a cadre post; (ii) in the case of an appointment by transfer, an officer on probation or such an officer who, having successfully completed his probation, awaits appointment to a cadre post, provided such officer does not have a lien on a substantive post in any Government Department; Explanation.—It is not necessary that a member of the Service shall at any given time be ordinarily doing the work of a cadre post. He may be working on an ex-cadre post for reasons of administrative convenience or while officiating against an ex-cadre post will be deemed to be performing the duties of a cadre post; (p) “prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Act; (q) “Service” means the Haryana Service of Engineers, Group A, Public Health Engineering Department comprising two separate cadres of Civil and Mechanical; (r) “Superintending Engineer” means an officer-in-charge of a Circle and includes a post declared by the Government as equivalent; (s) “University” means— (i) any university incorporated by law in India; (ii) in the case of degrees or diplomas obtained as a result of examination held before the 15th August, 1947, the Punjab, Sind or Dacca University; and SERVICE OF ENGINEERS, GROUP A, PUBLIC HEALTH ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT (iii) any other university, which is declared by the Government to be a recognized or deemed university for the purposes of this Act.