The Assam Administrative and Pension Tribunal Act, 1977

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    "title": "The Assam Administrative and Pension Tribunal Act, 1977",
    "short_title": "The Assam Administrative and Pension Tribunal Act, 1977",
    "act_number": "Assam Act No. 8 of 1977",
    "act_year": 1977,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Assam",
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    "description": "The Assam Administrative and Pension Tribunal Act, 1977",
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            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Short title, extent and commencement.",
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            "title": "2. Definitions.",
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            "content": "(a) 'Chairman' means the Chairman of the Tribunal;\n(b) 'Civil servant' means a person who is or has been a member of a civil service or who holds or has held a civil post in connection with the affairs of the State of Assam and includes any such person on foreign service, a person whose services have been temporarily placed at the disposal of a local or other authority, any person in the service of a local or other authority whose services have been temporarily placed at the disposal of the State Government, a person in service under the State Government on a contract and a person who has retired from the Government service elsewhere and has been re-employed under the State Government but does not include employees of the Gauhati High Court, employees of the Assam Legislative Assembly Secretariat, employees of the Assam Public Service Commission, persons in the All India Service and other Civil Services of the Indian Union, or persons of Civil Services of other State Governments serving on deputation in Assam;\n(c) 'Civil Services' means the Civil Services of the State of Assam and such other Services as may be specified by the State Government from time to time by notification, but shall not include-\n(i) Services under the Gauhati High Court;\n(ii) Services under the Assam Legislative Assembly;\n(iii) Services under the Assam Public Service Commission;\n(iv) All India Services and other Civil Services of the Indian Union;\n(d) 'competent authority' means any officer or other authority having power to pass any order whether original, appellate or revisional, under any service rule, executive instruction or order, general or special, of the State Government in respect of any conditions of services of civil servant;\n(e) 'conditions of services' includes all matters relating to the-\n(i) appointment, seniority, confirmation and termination of service and pension matters of a civil servant;\n(ii) censure, withholding of increments or promotion, recovery from pay of any loss to the Government, reduction to a lower service grade or post, or to a lower time scale, or to a lower stage in a time scale, denial or variation of pension or denial of the maximum pension;\n(iii) all matters arising out of application of the Fundamental Rules and Subsidiary Rules;\n(f) 'member' means a member of the Tribunal and includes the Chairman;\n(g) 'notification' means a notification published in the Assam Gazette;\n(h) 'prescribed' means prescribed by rules made under this Act;\n(i) 'State Government' means the Government of Assam;\n(j) 'Tribunal' means the Assam Administrative and Pension Tribunal constituted under Section 3 of this Act.",
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            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Constitution of the Tribunal.",
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            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Jurisdiction.",
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        {
            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Limitation.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Powers of the Tribunal as Civil Court.",
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            "content": "(a) summoning and enforcing the attendance of any person and examining him on oath;\n(b) requiring the discovery and production of documents;\n(c) receiving evidence on affidavit;\n(d) requisitioning any pubic record or a copy thereof from any Court or office; and\n(e) issuing commissions for examination of witnesses or documents.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Amendment of decisions or orders.",
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        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. Procedure before Tribunal.",
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        {
            "number": "9",
            "title": "9. The order of the Tribunal.",
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            "content": "(b) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1) (a) the Tribunal may, on the application of any of the parties, review its own decision of order in any case and may pass such order as it thinks fit:",
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        {
            "number": "10",
            "title": "10. Representation before Tribunal.",
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        {
            "number": "11",
            "title": "11. Contempt.",
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        {
            "number": "12",
            "title": "12. Power to make rules.",
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        {
            "number": "13",
            "title": "13. Power to make regulations by the Tribunal.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "14",
            "title": "14. Repeal of Assam Administrative Tribunal Ordinance.",
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    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "Last Updated 10th February, 2020 [ass023]",
        "Act Number": "Assam Act No. 8 of 1977",
        "Enactment Date": "",
        "Act Year": "1977",
        "Short Title": "The Assam Administrative and Pension Tribunal Act, 1977",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Assam"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:18"
}