THE WEST PAKISTAN REGISTRATION DEPARTMENT MINISTERIAL ESTABLISHMENT RECRUITMENT RULES, 1963.

1. Short title and commencement—(1) These rules may be called the West Pakistan Registration Department Ministerial Establishment Recruitment Rules, 1963.

     (2)  They shall come into force at once.
     
     2.    Definitions- In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions shall have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them, that is to say-“Appendix’ means the Appendix to these rules;

3.               Constitution and composition of Establishment—(1) The Establishment shall consist of Zonal sections, members of one section not being eligible, save as provided in rule 10, for appointment to a post in any other section of the Establishment.
(2)       Each section of the Establishment shall comprise the posts specified in column 2 of the Appendix and such other ministerial posts in the Department as may be determined by Government from time to time.
4.       Appointing Authority-Appointments to the Establishment shall be made by the Inspector-General of the Zone where the vacancies occur.
5.        Method of Recruitment-(1) Recruitment to the Establishment shall be made by the following methods—

(2)  Vacancies to be filled by initial recruitment shall be reserved for bona fide residents  of the Zone where vacancies occur.
(3) Vacancies to be filled by promotion shall be filled in the following manner:-

6  Age—(1) No person, who is less than eighteen years or more than twenty five years of age, shall be appointed to the Establishment by initial recrutiment:-

Provided that—

1. for a period of ten years from the coming into force of these rules, the upper age  limit in the case of a candidate from the scheduled castes or Under-Developed areas shall be twenty-eight years and
2. in the case of a person whose services under Government have been terminated for want of a vacancy the period of service already rendered by him shall, for the purpose of the upper age limit under this rule, be excluded from his age.

     7.           Qualifications—(1) no person shall be appointed to a post in the Establishment by initial recruitment unless he possesses the qualifications prescribed for the post in column 3 of the Appendix.
(2)          No person, not already into Government, Service, shall be appointed to the Establishment unless he produces a certificae of character from the principal academic officer of the academic institution last attended and also certificates of character from two other responsible persons not being his relatives, who are well acquainted with his character and antecedents.

PART III—CONDTIONS OF SERVICE

8.      Probation—(1) A person appointed to the Establishment against a sub-stantive vacancy shall remain on probation or a period or two years, if appointed by initial recruitment and for a period of one year, it appointed otherwise.

                  Explanation—Officiating service and service spent on deputation to a corresponding or a higher post may be allowed to count towards the period of probation.
(2) If the work or conduct of a member of the Establishment during the period of probation has been unsatisfactory the appointing authority may, notwithstanding that the period of probation has not expired, dispense with his services if he has been appointed by initial recruitment, and if he has been appointed otherwise, revert him to his former post or if there be no such post dispense with his services.
(3) On completion of the period of probation of a member of the Establishment the appointing authority may subject to the provisions of sub-rule
(4) , confirm him in his appointment, or if his work or conduct has, in the opinion of such authority, not been satisfactory—

                  Explanation I—If no orders have been made by the day following the completion of the initial probationary period, the period of probation shall be deemed to have been extended.
Explanation II—If no orders have been made by the day on which the maximum period of probation expires, the probationer shall be deemed to have been confirmed in his appointment from the date on which the period of probation was last extended or may be deemed to have been so extended.
(4) No person shall be confirmed in the Establishment unless he successfully completes such training and passes such departmental examinations as may be prescribed by Government from time to time.
(5) If a member of the Establishment fails to complete sucessfully any training or pass any departmental examination prescribed under sub-rule (4) within such period or in such number of attempts as may be prescibed by Government, the appointing authority may—

            9.   Seniority—(1) The seniority interse of the members of the Establishment in the various grades thereof shall be determined—

           
Explanation I— If a junior official in a lower grade is promoted to a higher grade temporarily in the public interest, even though continuing later permanently in the higher grade, it would not adversely affect the interest of his seniors in the fixation of his seniority in the higher grade.
Explanation II— If a junior official in a lower grade is promoted to a higher grade by superseding a senior official and subsequently that official is also promoted, the official promoted first shall rank senior to the official promoted subsequently.
Explanation III— A junior official appointed to a higher grade shall be deemed to have superseded a senior official only if both the junior and the senior officials were considered for a higher grade and the junior official was appointed in preference to the senior official.
(2) The seniority in the various grades of the Establishment of the members appointed by initial recruitment vis-à-vis those appointed otherwise shall be determined—

10.   Liability to transfer and serve—Members of the Establishment shall be liable to—

      (b) serve in any department of Government or any local authority or statutory body set up or established by Government.
11.   General Rules—In all matters not expressly provided for in these rules, members of the Establishment shall be governed by such rules as have been or may hereafter be prescribed by Government and made applicable to them.
12.    Relaxation—Any of these rules may, for reasons to be recorded in writing be relaxed in individual cases, if Government is satisfied that a strict application of the rule would cause undue hardship to the individual concerned:
Provided that wherever such relaxation involves a question on which consultation with the Commission is mandatory, the Commission shall be consulted before the relaxation is made.
13.   Delegation—Government may delegate all or any of its powers under these rules to any officer subordinate to it.
14.   Powers of Governor to safeguard rights of Government Servants—Whenever in the application of these rules the terms and conditions of service of any person serving in connection with the affairs of the Provice of West Pakistan, as guaranteed by any law, for the time being in force, are likely to be adversely affected, the Governor of West Pakistan shall make appropriate orders to safeguard the constitutional and legal rights of such persons.