Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,— (a) "Appointing authority", in relation to a Government servant, means— (i) the authority empowered to make appointments to the services of which the Government servant is for the time being a member or to the grade of the service in which the Government servant is for the time being included, or (ii) the authority empowered to make appointments to the post which the Government servant for the time being holds, or (iii) the authority which appointed the Government servant to such service, grade or post, as the case may be, or (iv) where the Government servant having been a permanent member of any other service or having substantially held any other permanent post, has been in continuous employment of the Government, the authority which appointed him to such service or to any grade in that service or to that post, whichever authority is the highest authority; (b) "Commission" means the West Bengal Staff Selection Commission; (c) "Direct recruitment" means the method of recruitment provided under the rules regulating the recruitment to the post and services under the Government of West Bengal as may be specified, by notification; (d) "member" means a member of the Commission and includes the Chairperson; (e) "notification" means a notification published in the Official Gazette; (f) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under the Act; (g) "regulations" means regulation made under section 14; (h) "Secretary-cum-Controller of Examinations" means the Secretary-cum- Controller of Examinations of the Commission; (i) "State Government" means the Government of West Bengal. Constitution of Commission. Appointment, and tern s and conditions of service of members.