REGISTERED No. D- ( D)-72 रजिस्ट्री सं ० डी-(डी ) -72
भारत का राजपत्र The Gazette of India
क्षसाधारण
WAT 1976
EXTRAORDINARY
भाग II- खण्ड 1
PART 11 -Section 1
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नई विल्लो, बृहस्पतिवार, अप्रैन 8 , 1976 चैत्र 19,1898 NEW DELHI , THURSDAY, APRIL 8 , 1976 / CHAITRA 19 , 1898
भाग में भिन्न पृष्ठ संख्या दी आती है जिससे कि यह अलग संकलन के रूप में रखा जा सके ।
इस Separate paging is given to this Part in order that it may be filed as a separate compilation
MINISTRY OF LAW , JUSTICE AND COMPANY AFFAIRS
(Legislative Department )
New Delhi , the 8th April , 1976 / Chaitra 19 , 1898 ( Saka )
The following Act of Parliament received the assent of the President on the 8th April , 1976, and is hereby published for general information: --
THE DEPARTMENTALISATION OF UNION ACCOUNTS
(TRANSFER OF PERSONNEL ) ACT, 1976
No. 59 OF 1976
[8th April, 1976 ]
An Act to provide for the transfer of officers serving in the Indian Audit and Accounts Department to any Ministry, Department or office of the Central Government for facilitating the efficient dis- charge by such Ministry , Department or office of the responsibi- lity in connection with compiling the accounts thereof.
Be it enacted by Parliament in the Twenty - seventh Year of the Republic of India as follows: -
1. (1) This Act may be called the Departmentalisation of Union Accounts (Transfer of Personnel ) Act , 1976.
Short title and commen- cement, (2) It shall be deemed to have come into force on the 1st day of March , 1976.
D6 of1971 .
2. ( 1) Where the President has by order under the first proviso to sub -section ( 1 ) of section 10 of the Comptroller and Auditor-General's (Duties, Powers and Conditions of Service ) Act, 1971 , provided for relieving, with effect from any date ( hereinafter referred to as the pres- cribed date ) , the Comptroller and Auditor - General from the responsibility for compiling any accounts of the Union or of any services or departments of the Union as may be specified in such order , then , subject to the provisions of this Act ,it shall be lawful for the Central Government , on
Transfer of of cers and emplo Indian Audit and Accounts Depart- ment, yees ofthe
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the advice of a Committee established under sub - section (2 ) , to transfer , by order and with effect from such date or dates (which may be either retrospective to any date not earlier than the prescribed date or pros- pective) as may be specified in the order, to any Ministry or Depart- ment of the Central Government or any of its attached or subordinate offices, any of the officer's or employees serving in the Indian Audit and Accounts Department , for the purpose of facilitating the efficient dis- charge by such Ministry, Department or office of the responsibility of compiling such accounts:
Provided that no order under this sub -section shall be made in relation to any such officer or employee serving in the Indian Audit and Accounts Department who has , in respect of the proposal made on the advice of the Committee to transfer such officer or employee under this sub -section, intimated , within such time as may be specified in this behalf his unwillingness to be so transferred, unless the Central Govern- ment is of opinion that it is necessary in the public interest to transfer such officer or employee as aforesaid:
Provided further that nothing in this sub - section shall affect the right of any such officer or employee to resign or retire from service in accordance with the rules applicable to him in the Indian Audit and Accounts Department.
(2) The Central Government may, by order, establish one or more Advisory Committees consisting of such number of members as it thinks fit for the purpose of assisting it in regardto the transfer of officers and employees under sub - section (1) .
(3) An officer or other employee transferred to any Ministry , De- partment or office of the Central Government by an order made under sub-section ( 1 ) shall , on and from the date of transfer, cease to be an officer or employee in the Indian Audit and Accounts Department and shall , subjectto the provisions of sub -section (4) and of any law or rules made under Chapter I of Part XIV of the Constitution, hold office in such Ministry, Department or office with such designation as the Central Government may specify.
(4) Every officer or employee transferred under sub-section (1 ) shall be entitled to be appointed to a post carrying a scale of pay not less favourable than that of the post which he held immediately before the date of such transfer and in the same capacity (whether substantive or officiating) in which he held the post last mentioned:
Provided that if immediately before the date of such transfer any such officer or employee is officiating in a higher post in the Indian Audit and Accounts Department either in a leave vacancy or in any other vacancy of a specified duration, his pay, on transfer, shall be protected for the unexpired period of such vacancy .
2 of 1976, 3. (1 ) The Departmentalisation of Union Accounts (Transfer of Per- sonnel ) Ordinance , 1976, is hereby repealed.
Repeal and saving.
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(2) Notwithstanding such repeal , anything done or any action taken under the said Ordinance shall be deemed to have been done or taken under the corresponding provisions of this Act.
K. K. SUNDARAM, Secy. to the Govt. of India.
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