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GOA, DAMAN AND DIU (ABSORBED EMPLOYEES) ACT 1965

ACT NO. 50 OF 1965

[22nd December, 1965]

Short title. 1.Short title. This Act may be called the Goa, Daman and Diu (Absorbed Employees) Act, 1965.

Definitions. 2.Definitions. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,- (a) absorbed employee " means a person who immediately before the 20th day of December, 1961, was holding an absorbed post and who on and after that date either served or has been serving in that or any other post in connection with the administration of the Union territory of Goa, Daman and Diu or in any of the Departments of the Central Government; (b) absorbed post " means a civil service or post which existed under the former Portuguese Administration in Goa, Daman and Diu immediately before the 20th day of December 1961.

Power to make rules regulating recruitment and conditions of serviceof absorbed employees and employees of certain corporations.

3. (1) Power to make rules regulating recruitment and conditions of service of absorbed employees and employees of certain corporations. The Central Government may make rules- (a) for the regulation of recruitment to absorbed posts and the conditions of service of absorbed employees; (b) for the regulation of the conditions of service of persons who were in the service of a Corporation (whether know as a junta or otherwise) immediately before the 20th day of December, 1961, and who on or after that date either served or have been serving in connection with the administration of the Union territory of Goa, Daman and Diu or in any of the Departments of the Central Government 58

(2) Any such rule may be made so as to be retrospective to any date not earlier than the 20th day of December, 1961 : Provided that no person shall, by virtue of such retrospective effect be liable to refund any amount paid to him by way of salary or allowances or pension before the making of any such rule.

(3) Every rule made under this section shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is made, before each House of Parliament, while it is in session for a total period of thirty days which may be comprised in one session or in two successive sessions and if, before the expiry of the session in which it is so laid or the session immediately follow- ing, both Houses agree in making any modification in the rule, or both Houses agree that the rule should not be made, the rule shall, thereafter, have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be; so however that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that rule.

Repeal.

4. (1)Repeal. On the making of any rule under section 3, the corresponding law, if any, in respect of any matter for which provision is made in that rule, shall stand repealed with effect from the date of the coming into force of that rule.

(2) The provisions of sections 6 and 24 of the General Clauses Act,1897,( 10 of 1987), shall apply to such repeal as if the rule and

the corresponding law referred to in sub-section (1) were Central Acts.

Power to remove difficulties. 5. Power to remove difficulties. If any difficulty arises in giving effect to the provisions of this Act or any rule made thereunder in relation to any absorbed employee or any person referred

to in clause (b) of sub-section (1) of section 3, the Central Government may, by order, make such provision as appears to it to be necessary or expedient for removing the difficulty: Provided that the power under this section shall not be exercisable after the expiration of a period of two years from the commencement of this Act. { }