G.I., Dep. of Per. & Trg., Notification, dated 22.1.2015
G.S.R. 6(E).—In exercise of the powers
conferred by the proviso to article 309 of the Constitution, the President
hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Fundamental Rules, 1922,
namely:-
1. (1)
These rules may be called the Fundamental (Amendment) Rules, 2014.
(2) They shall be deemed to have come into
force on the 27th October, 2013.
2. In the
Fundamental Rules, 1922, in rule 29, for clause (2), the following clause shall
be substituted, namely:—
“(2) If a Government servant is reduced as a
measure of penalty to a lower service, grade or post or to a lower time-scale,
the authority ordering the reduction shall specify,—
(a) the period for which the reduction shall
be effective;
(b) whether, on restoration, the period of
reduction shall operate to postpone future increments and, if so, to what
extent; and
(c) whether the Government servant shall
regain his original seniority in the higher service, grade or post or
time-scale on his restoration to the service, grade or post or time-scale from
which he was reduced.”
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