The All-India Services Act, 1951

This Act may be called the All-India Services Act, 1951.

In this Act, the expression "an All-India Service" means the service known as theIndian Administrative Service or the service known as the Indian Police Service, 1[or any otherservice specified in section 2A].

1[2A. Other All-India Services.--With effect from such date as the Central Government may,by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint in this behalf, there shall be constituted the followingAll-India Services and different dates may be appointed for different services, namely:-- 1. The Indian Service of Engineers (Irrigation, Power, Buildings and Roads); 2. The Indian Forest Service; 3. The Indian Medical and Health Service.]

(1) The Central Government may,after consultation with the Governments of the States concerned, 1*** 2[and by notification in the Official Gazette]] make rules for the regulation of recruitment,and the conditions of service of persons appointed to an All-India Service. 3[(1A) The power to make rules conferred by this section shall include the power to giveretrospective effect from a date not earlier than the date of commencement of this Act, to the rules orany of them but no retrospective effect shall be given to any rule so as to prejudicially affect theinterests of any person to whom such rule may be applicable.] 4[(2) Every rule made by the Central Government under this section and every regulation madeunder or in pursuance of any such rule, shall be laid, as soon as may be after such rule or regulation ismade, before each House of Parliament while it is in session for a total period of thirty days whichmay be comprised in one session or in two or more successive sessions, and if, before the expiry ofthe session immediately following the session or the successive sessions aforesaid, both Houses agreein making any modification in such rule or regulation or both Houses agree that such rule orregulation should not be made, the rule or regulation shall thereafter have effect only in such modifiedform or be of no effect, as the case may be; so, however, that any such modification or annulmentshall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that rule or regulation.]

All rules in force immediately before the commencement ofthis Act and applicable to an All-India Service shall continue to be in force and shall be deemed to berules made under this Act.