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    "slug": "the-bihar-lokayukta-condition-of-service-rules-1974",
    "title": "The Bihar Lokayukta (Condition of Service) Rules, 1974",
    "short_title": "The Bihar Lokayukta (Condition of Service) Rules, 1974",
    "act_number": "",
    "act_year": 1974,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Bihar",
    "law_status": "unknown",
    "enactment_date": null,
    "description": "The Bihar Lokayukta (Condition of Service) Rules, 1974",
    "preamble": "",
    "section_label": "Section",
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        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. These Rules may be called the Bihar Lokayukta (Conditions of Service) Rules, 1974.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
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        },
        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Definitions.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) \"Actual service\" includes-\n(i) time spent by the Lokayukta on duty;\n(ii) joining time or transfer to the office of Lokayukta from a post or a office under the Government of India or a State Government;\n(b) \"Family\" means-\n(i) the wife or husband of the Lokayukta; and\n(ii) the parents, legitimate children and step-children of the Lokayukta, wholly dependent upon him;\n(c) \"Government\" means the Government of India or a State Government;\n(d) \"Government Servant\" means a person who before his appointment as Lokayukta, was in the service of the Government of India or of a State Government;\n(e) \"Governor\" means the Governor of Bihar;\n(f) \"Hospital\" means a Government hospital and includes a hospital maintained by a local authority and any other hospital with which arrangements have been made by Government for the treatment of its officers;\n(g) \"Parent service\" means in relation to a Government servant appointed as Lokayukta, the service under which he was employed before his appointment as Lokayukta;\n(h) \"Pension\" means a pension of any kind payable to the Lokayukta, and includes any gratuity or other sum or sums so payable by way of death or retirement benefits;\n(i) \"Prescribed\" means prescribed under these Rules;\n(j) \"Service for pension\" includes-\n(i) actual service;\n(ii) forty-five days, or the number of days actually availed of, whichever is less, at each period of leave, or full allowances;\n(iii) joining time or return from leave outside India; and\n(iv) any period which may be added to the service for pension of the Lokayukta;\n(v) \"Service pension\" means the pension granted to a Government servant appointed as Lokayukta under the Rules of the Parent service and signified the gross amount of such pension prior to communication and includes the pension equivalent of service gratuity.\nPart II\nRetirement of a Government Servant on Appointment as Lokayukta\n3.\nPart III\nLeave\n4.\n5.\n(a) earned leave, on full allowance, up to 1/11th period spent on duty subject to a maximum of four months at any onetime;\n(b) leave on medical certificate, on half the allowance admissible on earned leave, subject to maximum of three months at any one time.\n(c) extraordinary leave without allowance, subject to a maximum of three months at any one time.\nExplanation.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Notwithstanding anything contained in sub",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 2
        },
        {
            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Special disability leave.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 3
        },
        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. Consequence of over",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 4
        },
        {
            "number": "9",
            "title": "9. Authority competent to grant leave, etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Part IV\nPension",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 5
        },
        {
            "number": "10",
            "title": "10. Pension payable to the Lokayukta.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) unless he has completed not less than three years of service for pension, or\n(b) if he has been removed from service; or\n(c) if he has resigned, unless he has completed three years of service c more for pension, and such resignation is accepted by the Governor",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 6
        },
        {
            "number": "11",
            "title": "11. Special provision for pension in respect of the Lokayukta who has held any pensionable civil post under Government.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "12.\n[(a) The pension for first three completed years shall be payable @ Rs. 15000/- (Rupees fifteen thousand) per annum; and]\n(b) Thereafter, for each succeeding completed year of the service an additional amount of Rs. 3000/- (Rupees three thousand) shall be payable for pension.\"",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 7
        },
        {
            "number": "13",
            "title": "13. Power of Governor to add to the service for pension.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "14.\n15.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 8
        },
        {
            "number": "16",
            "title": "16. Authority competent to grant pension.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Part V\nMiscellaneous",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 9
        },
        {
            "number": "17",
            "title": "17. Facilities for medical treatment and other conditions of service.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 10
        },
        {
            "number": "17A",
            "title": "17A. Allowance admissible to Lokayukta.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "17B.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 11
        },
        {
            "number": "18",
            "title": "18. Provident Fund.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 12
        },
        {
            "number": "19",
            "title": "19. House building advance and motor car advance.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Part VI",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 13
        },
        {
            "number": "20",
            "title": "20. Composition of establishment.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 14
        },
        {
            "number": "21",
            "title": "21. Secretary to Lokayukta.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 15
        },
        {
            "number": "22",
            "title": "22. Other conditions of service of the Secretary.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 16
        },
        {
            "number": "23",
            "title": "23. Other Gazetted Officer, Ministerial Officers and inferior servants.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 17
        },
        {
            "number": "24",
            "title": "24. Method of recruitment of the subordinate staff.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) by promotion of a person employed in the establishment; or\n(b) by permanent transfer or deputation of a person serving outside the establishment in connection with the affairs of the Union or this State; or\n(c) by direct recruitment for ad-hoc purposes.\n(a) specify the method or methods by which a post or a class of posts may be filled;\n(b) determine the proportion of vacancies to be filled by each method, and\n(c) in case of recruitment by promotion specify the class of officers whom and the conditions subject to which they shall be eligible for such promotion:",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 18
        },
        {
            "number": "25",
            "title": "25. Head of Office.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 19
        },
        {
            "number": "26",
            "title": "26. Powers to utilize the Services of any officers or investigation agency of the State Government.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 20
        },
        {
            "number": "27",
            "title": "27. Remuneration, honorarium and special pay.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 21
        },
        {
            "number": "28",
            "title": "28. Probation.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 22
        },
        {
            "number": "29",
            "title": "29. Pay.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 23
        },
        {
            "number": "30",
            "title": "30. Other conditions of service.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 24
        },
        {
            "number": "31",
            "title": "31. Control and discipline.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 25
        },
        {
            "number": "32",
            "title": "32. Penalties.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(1) censure;\n(2) withholding of increments or promotion;\n(3) reduction to a lower post on time-scale or lower stage in a time-scale;\n(4) recovery from pay of the whole or part of any pecuniary loss caused to the Union or State by negligence or breach of orders;\n(5) compulsory retirement;\n(6) removal from service in the establishment which shall not disqualify from future employment under the Government;\n(7) dismissal from service in the establishment which shall ordinarily disqualify from future employment under the Government, and\n(8) fine.\nExplanation.\nNote. - (1) Before an order imposing the following penalties can be passed, the procedure laid down under Rule 55 of the Civil Services (Classification, Control and Appeal) Rules shall be followed:-\nNote.\n(i) Dismissal;\n(ii) Removal;\n(iii) Compulsory retirement, or\n(iv) Reduction in rank.\nNote. - (2) For the procedure to be followed before an order imposing the following penalties can be passed [See Rule 35A of the Civil Services (Classification, Control and Appeal] Rules:\nNote.\n(i) Censure;\n(ii) Withholding of increment or promotion including stoppage at efficiency bar;\n(iii) Recovery from pay of the whole or part of any pecuniary loss caused to Government by negligence or breach of order.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 26
        },
        {
            "number": "33",
            "title": "33. Punishing authority.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 27
        },
        {
            "number": "34",
            "title": "34. Disciplinary action against an officer on deputation to establishment.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 28
        },
        {
            "number": "35",
            "title": "35. Appeal.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Note. - In regard to construction on appeals or disposal thereof, the provisions of Rules 59, 61, 62, 63, 64 and 65 of the Civil Services (Classification, Control and Appeal) Rules and Rule 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 of the Bihar and Orissa Subordinate Service Discipline and Appeal Rules, 1935 shall be followed.\nNote.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 29
        }
    ],
    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "bh430",
        "Act Number": "",
        "Enactment Date": "",
        "Act Year": "1974",
        "Short Title": "The Bihar Lokayukta (Condition of Service) Rules, 1974",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Bihar"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:19"
}