The Gujarat Higher Secondary Schools Services Tribunal Act, 1983

{
    "id": 16791,
    "slug": "the-gujarat-higher-secondary-schools-services-tribunal-act-1983",
    "title": "The Gujarat Higher Secondary Schools Services Tribunal Act, 1983",
    "short_title": "The Gujarat Higher Secondary Schools Services Tribunal Act, 1983",
    "act_number": "Gujarat Act No. 12 of 1983",
    "act_year": 1983,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Gujarat",
    "law_status": "unknown",
    "enactment_date": null,
    "description": "The Gujarat Higher Secondary Schools Services Tribunal Act, 1983",
    "preamble": "",
    "section_label": "Section",
    "sections": [
        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Short title, extent and commencement.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 0
        },
        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Definitions.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) \"appointed day\" means the date on which this Act comes into force;\n(b) \"employee\" means any member of the teaching and non-teaching staff of a higher secondary school (whether confirmed or temporary or on probation) in the service of such school and for the purpose of any proceeding under this Act in relation to a dispute referred to in section 8, includes any such member who has been dismissed or removed or whose services are otherwise terminated;\n(c) \"headmaster\" means the head of the teaching and non-teaching staff of a higher secondary school by whatever style designated;\n(d) \"higher secondary education\" means the education including post basic higher secondary education from eleventh standard upto twelfth standard.\n(e) \"higher secondary school\" means a school imparting higher secondary education and includes school imparting post basic higher secondary education;\n(f) \"manager\" in relation to any higher secondary school means a person or body of persons in charge or control of the management of the higher secondary school;\n(g) \"non-teaching staff means such staff of a higher secondary school as is appointed to perform any duty or function other than that of teaching;\n(h) \"notified order\" means an order published in the Official Gazette ;\n(i) \"post basic higher education\" means higher secondary education imparted through a productive craft;\n(j) \"prescribed\" means prescribed by rules made under section 17;\n(k) \"Tribunal\" means the Higher Secondary School Services Tribunal constituted under section 3.\nPart II\nTribunal",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": true,
            "sort_order": 1
        },
        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Constitution of Gujarat Higher Secondary Schools Services Tribunal.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 2
        },
        {
            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Term of office and conditions of service of person appointed to be Tribunal.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 3
        },
        {
            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Power of State Government to terminate appointment before expiry of term.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(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.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 4
        },
        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Headquarters of Tribunal.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 5
        },
        {
            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Jurisdiction of Tribunal.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 6
        },
        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. Dispute to be determined by Tribunal.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 7
        },
        {
            "number": "9",
            "title": "9. Power of Tribunal to make regulations.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 8
        },
        {
            "number": "10",
            "title": "10. Tribunal to have powers of Court.",
            "chapter": null,
            "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) such other matters as may be prescribed.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 9
        },
        {
            "number": "11",
            "title": "11. Proceedings before Tribunal to be judicial proceedings.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 10
        },
        {
            "number": "12",
            "title": "12. Finality of decision of Tribunal.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 11
        },
        {
            "number": "13",
            "title": "13. Bar of jurisdiction of civil court.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Part III\nProcedure for Imposition of Penalty on Employees",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 12
        },
        {
            "number": "14",
            "title": "14. Dismissal, removal or reduction in rank of higher secondary school employee.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) an inquiry in which he has been informed of the charges against him and given a reasonable opportunity of being heard in respect of these charges, and\n(b) the action proposed against him is approved by the Director of Higher Education:",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 13
        },
        {
            "number": "15",
            "title": "15. Resignation of higher secondary schools employee.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Part IV\nMiscellaneous",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 14
        },
        {
            "number": "16",
            "title": "16. Certain contracts etc. to be null and void.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(b) any term or condition of service of the employee whether employed before or after the appointed day, shall, to the extent that it takes away any right conferred on such employee by or under this Act or to the extent of any inconsistency with the provisions of this Act and the rules made thereunder, be null and void.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 15
        },
        {
            "number": "17",
            "title": "17. Power of Government to make rules.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the term for which a person constituting the Tribunal shall hold office and his conditions of service under section 4;\n(b) the matters to be prescribed under clause (d) of sub-section (1) of section 10;\n(c) subsistence allowance to which an employee shall be entitled during his suspension and the terms and conditions thereof under proviso to subsection (5) of section 14;\n(d) any other matter which is to be or may by prescribed by the rules.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 16
        },
        {
            "number": "18",
            "title": "18. Savings.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 17
        },
        {
            "number": "19",
            "title": "19. Repeal and savings.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 18
        }
    ],
    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "guj074",
        "Act Number": "Gujarat Act No. 12 of 1983",
        "Enactment Date": "",
        "Act Year": "1983",
        "Short Title": "The Gujarat Higher Secondary Schools Services Tribunal Act, 1983",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Gujarat"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:19"
}