Assam Panchayat Employees (Provincialisation) Act, 1999
[Act No. XXII of 1999]*
[20th December, 1999]
Preamble
An Act to provide for provincialisation of services of the employees working in the Panchayat of all levels established under the Assam Panchayat Act, 1994.
Wherears it is expedient to provide for provincialisation of services of the employees working in the Panchayat of all level established under the Assam Panchayat Act, 1994, (Assam Act XVIII of 1994) for its improvement and for better management and control of Panchayats in the State of Assam.
It is hereby enacted in the Fiftieth Year of the Republic of India as follows:-
Footnote:
* Received the assent of the Governor on 15th December, 1999, Published vide Notification No. LGL 51/98/12, dated the 20th December, 1999 (See Assam Gazette Extraordinary (No.21) dated 2nd February, 2000, at page 98-101.
(1) This Act may be called the Assam Panchayat Employees (Provincialisation) Act, 1999.
(2) It shall extend to the whole of Assam in the rural areas except the Autonomous District under the Sixth Schedule to the Constitution of India and shall exclude any area which has been or hereafter may be included in a Municipality or a Town Committee or a Cantonment constituted under the Assam Municipal Act, 1956 (Assam Act XV of 1957) and the Cantonment Act, 1924, respectively, or by any other Act.
(3) It shall be deemed to have come into force on the first day of October, 1991.
In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context-
(a) "appointed day" means the date on which this Act came into force;
(b) "date of appointment" means in relation to any employee, the date on which he joined the service of Panchayats;
(c) "Director" means the Director of Panchayat and Rural _________Development, Assam;___________________________
(d) "employees" means a person in the employment of Panchayats against a regularly sanctioned post;
(e) "notification" means the notification published in the Official Gazette;
(f) " panchayats" means the Gaon Panchayat, the Anchalik Panchayat and the Zilla Parishad established under the Assam Panchayat Act, 1994;
(g) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
(h) "provincialisation" means taking over of the liabilities for payment of salaries including dearness allowances, medical relief and such other allowances as admissible to the Government servant of similar category and gratuity, pension, leave encashment etc., as admissible under the existing rules to the Government...
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