The Gujarat Civil Services Tribunal Act, 1972

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    "title": "The Gujarat Civil Services Tribunal Act, 1972",
    "short_title": "The Gujarat Civil Services Tribunal Act, 1972",
    "act_number": "Gujarat Act No. 2 of 1973",
    "act_year": 1972,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Gujarat",
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    "enactment_date": null,
    "description": "The Gujarat Civil Services Tribunal Act, 1972",
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            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Short title, extent and commencement.",
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            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Definitions.",
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            "content": "(a) \"law\" means any law regulating the recruitment and conditions of service of persons appointed to Civil services and posts under the State or to panchayat Service and matters connected therewith and includes any notification order rule regulation or instruction or direction issued or followed for such purpose;\n(b) \"non-gazetted posts\" means posts other than posts declared or known as gazetted posts under any law;\n(c) \"notified order\" means an order published in the Official Gazette ;\n(d) \"Panchayat Service\" means the Panchayat Service as constituted under Section 203 of the Gujarat Panchayats Act, 1961 (Gujarat VI of 1962).\n[(da) \"police officers\" means police officers governed by the Bombay Police Act, 1951 (Bombay XXII of 1951) or the Bombay State Reserve Police Force Act 1951 (Bombay XXXVIII of 1951).]\n(e) \"prescribed\" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;\n(f) \"President\" means the President of the Tribunal;\n(g) \"Schedule\" means the Schedule appended to this Act;\n[(h) \"specified Civil servants\" means persons who are or who have been members of the Civil services of the State of Gujarat or of the Panchayat Service but does not include persons who are or who have been police officers;]\n(i) \"Tribunal\" means the Gujarat Civil Services Tribunal Constituted under Section 3.",
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        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Constitution of Tribunal.",
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        {
            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Term of office and conditions of service of members of Tribunal.",
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        {
            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Power of State Government to terminate appointment before expiry of term.",
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            "content": "(i) is adjudged an insolvent, or\n(ii) engages during his term of office in any paid employment outside the duties of his office or\n(iii) is in the opinion of the State Government unfit to continue in office by reason of infirmity of mind or body or\n(iv) is convicted of an offence involving moral turpitude.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Filling of vacancies.",
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            "content": "[7. Discharge of functions by President or member during vacancy or absence.\n(b) in a case where the Tribunal consists of more than two members such other members may be authorised by the State Government a general or special order, shall perform the functions of the President.\n(a) in a case where the Tribunal consists of two members the President and\n(b) in a case where the Tribunal consists of more than two members the President and the other remaining members, may act as Tribunal as if the Tribunal consisted of only the President or as the case may be the President and such other members] .",
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        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. Power of Tribunal to make regulations.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "9",
            "title": "9. Headquarters of Tribunal.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "10",
            "title": "10. Jurisdiction of the Tribunal.",
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            "content": "(a) appeals filed by' specified Civil servants under Section 11;\n(b) any application filed by the State Government under Section 12;\n(c) appeals and applications transferred to it under Section 21.",
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        {
            "number": "11",
            "title": "11. Appeal by specified civil servants.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 9
        },
        {
            "number": "12",
            "title": "12. Power of State Government to apply for modification, or annulment of order or decision.",
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            "content": "(i) on the ground that it is contrary to law, or\n(ii) on the ground that it is inconsistent with the material on record, or\n(iii) for any other sufficient reason in the interest of justice, the State Government may, within a period of ninety days from the date of such order or decision, make an application to the Tribunal to modify, annnul or reverse such order or decision.\n[12A. State Government to be heard in certain cases.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "12B",
            "title": "12B. Review.",
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            "content": "(1) that some new or important matter or evidence which could not be discovered earlier after the exercise of due diligence and which was likely to materially affect the decision or order of the Tribunal was discovered after such decision or order; or\n(2) that there was some mistake or error apparent on the face of the record; or\n(3) that the decision or order required to be reviewed for any other sufficient reason:",
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            "sort_order": 11
        },
        {
            "number": "13",
            "title": "13. Tribunal to have powers of 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) issuing commissions for the examination of witnesses;\n(d) any other matter which may be prescribed.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "14",
            "title": "14. Proceedings before Tribunal to be judicial proceedings.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 13
        },
        {
            "number": "15",
            "title": "15. Members of Tribunal to be public servants.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "[16. Bar of Jurisdiction of Civil Courts.",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 14
        },
        {
            "number": "16A",
            "title": "16A. Manner of executive orders passed by Tribunal.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "17",
            "title": "17. Bar to appearance of legal practitioners.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "18",
            "title": "18. Exemption from payment of Court fees.",
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            "content": "[18A. Records to be open to inspection and extracts and copies to be given therefrom.",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 17
        },
        {
            "number": "19",
            "title": "19. Amendment of Schedule.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "20",
            "title": "20. Rules.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 19
        },
        {
            "number": "21",
            "title": "21. Bar of jurisdiction Government and transfer of pending proceedings to Tribunal.",
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            "content": "The Schedule\n( See Sections 11, 12, 19 and 21)\n( See Sections 11, 12, 19 and 21)\n(1) Dismissal or removal from service or reduction in rank.\n(2) Reduction of pay or to a lower time-scale of pay.\n(3) Non-confirmation in service.\n(4) Non-promotion to a higher post.\n(5) Reversion to a lower post.\n(6) Discharge from Service.\n[(7) Compulsory retirement.]\n[(8) Reduction to a lower stage in the time scale of pay for a specified period.\n(9) Censure.\n(10) Reduction in or withholding the pension or denial of the maximum pension admissible under the rules.\n(11) Withholding of increments.\n(12) Stoppage at Efficiency Bar in time-scale of pay.\n(13) Recovery from pay of the whole or part of any pecuniary Government by negligence or breach of orders.]",
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    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "guj025",
        "Act Number": "Gujarat Act No. 2 of 1973",
        "Enactment Date": "",
        "Act Year": "1972",
        "Short Title": "The Gujarat Civil Services Tribunal Act, 1972",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Gujarat"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:19"
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