11. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires- " appropriate office", in relation to a graduate to whom this Act applies of any prescribed class or description, means any office of any such grade or class in the public service as may have been prescribed as being appropriate for the appointment of the category of graduates of that class or description; "duly appointed", in relation to any appropriate office in the public service, means appointed to that office, under and in accordance with the provisions of any written law for the time being applicable to such appointment, by the person or authority empowered to make such appointment by or under that law; " duly conducted medical examination ", in relation to any appropriate office in the public service, means a medical examination conducted under and in accordance with the provisions for the time being applicable to members of the public service; " duly terminated ", in relation to any appropriate office in the public service, means the termination of service in that office, under and in accordance with the provisions of any written law for the time being applicable to such termination, but does not include resignation from that office without the prior approval of the person or authority empowered to terminate such service;" duly transferred ", in relation to any appropriate office in the public service, means a transfer to or from that office made or effected, under and in accordance with the provisions of any written law for the time being applicable to such transfer, by the person or authority empowered to do so by or under that law; " graduate ", in relation to any University, means a person on whom a degree or diploma has been conferred by that University, or who is or will be entitled to the conferment of such degree or diploma by reason of his having completed a successful course of training or study in that University , " Head ", in relation to any University, means the Vice-Chancellor for the time being of that University or, in the absence of a Vice-Chancellor, the person, by whatever name called, who for the time being occupies the position of Head of the management or administration of the affairs of that University; " public service" means the service consisting of members who are the holders of paid offices as servants of the Crown in respect of the Government of the Island, but does not include the persons referred to in paragraphs (a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (f), (g), (h), (j) and (k) of the definition of the expression "public officer " occurring in section 3 of the Ceylon (Constitution) Order in Council, 1946; and " technical" means artistic, scientific, or professional
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| | (a) the appointment of a person to any appropriate office in the public service shall be deemed to be due to take effect on the date specified in the letter or other instrument by which such appointment is made, or on such later date to which it may have been postponed by the person or authority who made such appointment; and | | |
| | (b) the appointment of a person to any appropriate office in the public service shall be deemed to be due to expire, if a date is specified in the letter or other instrument by which the appointment was made (not being a date expiring later than a period of five years from the date on which he became subject to compulsory public service), on that date or, if no date is so specified, at the end of such period of five years. | | |
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