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Contents Pages
Part - I Acts
The Punjab State Outsourced Personnel (Transition to Contractual Engagement) Act, 2026. (Punjab Act No. 10 of 2026)
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Part - II Ordinances
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Part - III Delegated Legislation
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Notification No.S.O.37/P.A.5/2017/S.112/ 2026 dated 13.08.2026 notifying the 31st day of July, 2026, as the date upto which appeal or application may be filed before the Appellate Tribunal.
Part - IV Correction Slips, Republications and
Replacements
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PART-I
GOVERNMENT OF PUNJAB
DEPARTMENT OF LEGAL AND LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS, PUNJAB
NOTIFICATION
The 14th August, 2026
No.12-Leg./2026.- The following Act of the Legislature of the State
of Punjab received the assent of the Governor of Punjab on the 14th day of
August, 2026, is hereby published for general information :-
THE PUNJAB STATE OUTSOURCED PERSONNEL
(TRANSITION TO CONTRACTUAL ENGAGEMENT) ACT, 2026
(Punjab Act No.10 of 2026)
AN
ACT
to provide for the transition of Eligible Outsourced Personnel engaged
in the Government of Punjab and its Entities into direct contractual engagement
upon completion of a qualifying period of outsourced service and to lay down
the conditions for such transition, and for the matters connected therewith or
incidental thereto.
BE it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Punjab in the Seventy-
seventh Year of the Republic of India as follows:-
CHAPTER I
PRELIMINARY
1. (1) This Act may be called the Punjab State Outsourced Personnel
(Transition to Contractual Engagement) Act, 2026.
Short title, extent and commencement.
(2) It shall extend to the whole of the State of Punjab.
(3) It shall come into force on and with effect from the date of its publication
in the Official Gazette.
Definitions.
2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-
(a) "Administrative Department" means the Department of the
Government of Punjab in which the Eligible Outsourced Personnel
is deployed, or, as the case may be, the Department under whose
administrative control the Entity engaging him functions;
(b) "Authentic Attendance" means the attendance marked through an
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digital method, as may be decided by the Administrative Department
or Entity:
Provided that upon transition into Direct Contractual
Engagement under this Act, Authentic Attendance shall mandatorily
be marked through a biometric attendance system;
(c) "Bank Salary Credit" means the credit of monthly wages of the
Eligible Outsourced Personnel into a bank account held in his own
name, evidenced by authenticated bank statements;
(d) "Continuous Service" means the service rendered by an Eligible
Outsourced Personnel against the same or substantially similar
function in the same Administrative Department or Entity, without
any break, with a minimum of two hundred and forty (240) days of
actual attendance in each calendar year and not less than seven
(7) hours of daily duty during such attendance; and,-
(i) service shall be deemed continuous notwithstanding any change
of Outsourcing Agency, where the deployment of such personnel
against the same or substantially similar function continued
substantially uninterrupted; and
(ii) notional breaks attributable to administrative reasons, authorised
leave, maternity leave, or natural calamity or pandemic notified
by the Government, shall not be reckoned as breaks in service;
(e) "Contractual Appointee" means an Eligible Outsourced Personnel
transitioned under this Act into Direct Contractual Engagement
with the Administrative Department or an Entity;
(f) "Cut-off Date" means such date, as the Government may, by
notification in the Official Gazette, appoint, being the reference
date on which an outsourced personnel must be in continuous
engagement, and satisfy all of the conditions specified in clause (i),
in order to be considered for transition under this Act;
(g) "Date of Eligibility" means the date on which an Eligible Outsourced
Personnel becomes entitled to be transitioned into Direct
Contractual Engagement under this Act, upon the completion of
Continuous Service specified in section 5:
Provided that where such Continuous Service has been
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commencement of this Act, the Date of Eligibility shall be the date
of commencement of this Act;
(h) "Direct Contractual Engagement" means the engagement of an
Eligible Outsourced Personnel by the Administrative Department
or an Entity in a direct master-servant relationship, without the
intervention of any Outsourcing Agency or middleman, on year-
on-year contract basis as provided in section 12;
(i) "Eligible Outsourced Personnel" means a person deployed in Group-C
or Group-D category, engaged through an Outsourcing Agency, a
contractor, a service provider or otherwise engaged by the
Administrative Department or Entity on an outsourcing basis, who,
on the Cut-off Date, cumulatively satisfies all of the following
conditions, namely: -
(i) Essential Public Service i.e. he is engaged in a service, the
disruption of which would, within forty-eight (48) hours, cause
cessation of, material impairment of, or substantial risk to public
welfare, public safety, public health or continuity of critical
function through, the public utility or public service concerned;
(ii) Full-time and Non-seasonal i.e. he is deployed on a full-time
basis, with a minimum of two hundred and forty (240) days of
actual attendance in each calendar year and not less than seven (7)
hours of daily duty during such attendance, and not against any
seasonal, project-specific, event-specific, temporary, casual,
intermittent or assignment-based activity;
(iii) Manpower Supply Arrangement i.e. he is engaged under a
contract which,-
(A) is billed substantially on a per-person, per-month basis;
(B) does not impose upon the contractor responsibility for any
defined output, work, deliverable or service as a whole, distinct
from the supply of labour; and
(C) the substance of the arrangement, notwithstanding its form
or label, is the supply of manpower to the Administrative
Department or Entity rather than the provision of a defined
service or outcome;
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(iv) Minimum Qualification i.e. he fulfils the minimum educational
and technical qualifications, and experience, prescribed by the
concerned Administrative Department or Entity for the cadre
concerned:
Provided that the Administrative Department or Entity may
take such legally, financially and logistically feasible measures,
as may be considered appropriate to facilitate the acquisition, by
the outsourced personnel, of any technical qualification which
may be acquired by such employee within a maximum limit of
one (01) year:
Provided further that personnel in a particular cadre who
do not fulfil the prescribed norms of minimum qualification but
fulfil all other conditions of this Act, and are required by the
Administrative Department or Entity for such essential services
as are covered under this Act, may be considered for Direct
Contractual Engagement in the separate category of workers
(Skilled, Semi-Skilled or Unskilled, as the case may be), and not
against any such post or cadre, the qualifications of which the
personnel do not fulfil:
Provided further that where the outsourced personnel are
undergoing any such courses facilitated by the Administrative
Department or Entity under the first proviso or on their own,
such personnel shall be deemed to have satisfied this condition
on the Cut-off Date upon successful completion of the said
course. However, the date of eligibility in such cases shall be
the date on which the outsourced personnel satisfies all the
conditions specified in this clause;
(v) Non-Packaged Function i.e. he is engaged in a function which
is not a Packaged Service within the meaning of clause (n), as
certified by the Administrative Department based on the
established current practice of engagement for the function
concerned;
(vi) Direct Functional Supervision i.e. he works under the direct
functional, operational and disciplinary supervision of the
Administrative Department or Entity and reports directly thereto, 859
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without any intervening supervisory chain of command consisting
of contractor representatives, agency supervisors, foremen or
similar intermediary personnel, as evidenced by Authentic
Attendance records, performance evaluation records and
disciplinary records maintained by the Administrative Department
or Entity;
(vii) Technical, Operational, Public Safety or Emergency Function
i.e. he performs duties which fall within, at least, one of the
following, namely:-
(A) Technical i.e. require a prescribed educational qualification,
technical certification, trade qualification, licence or
registration, including, by way of illustration and not limitation,
an Industrial Training Institute certificate, a recognised
Diploma, a National Skills Qualification Framework
certification of comparable level, a paramedical qualification,
registration under the Pharmacy Council Act, 1948 (Central
Act No. 8 of 1948), registration under the Indian Nursing
Council Act, 1947 (Central Act No. 48 of 1947), a driving
licence under the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (Central Act No.
59 of 1988), an electrician's licence issued under the Central
Electricity Authority Regulations framed under the Electricity
Act, 2003 (Central Act No. 36 of 2003), or any qualification
of comparable standing recognised by the Administrative
Department or a statutory authority; or
(B) Operational i.e. are integrally connected to the discharge of
a service falling under sub-clause (i) of this clause; or
(C) Public Safety i.e. involve maintenance of essential public
infrastructure or response to situations carrying substantial
risk to life, health or limb; or
(D) Emergency Response i.e. require deployment within hours
to address an event affecting public utility, public safety, public
health or continuity of administration; and
(viii) State-Funded Position i.e. the remuneration of the personnel
is paid, directly or indirectly, from the Consolidated Fund of the
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controlled or substantially financed by the Government of Punjab,
but shall exclude any engagement of which the source of funding,
either partly or fully, is a Centrally Sponsored Scheme / Central
Sector Scheme, an Externally Aided Project, or any other funding
source outside the foregoing description;
(j) "Entity" means any Board, Corporation, Company, Public Sector
Undertaking, Municipal Corporation, Municipal Council,
Improvement Trust, University, Society, Autonomous Body or any
other authority or institution established, owned, controlled or
substantially financed by the Administrative Department;
(k) "Government" means the Government of the State of Punjab in
the Department of Personnel, save where the context expressly
requires otherwise;
(l) "Hazardous Category" means an Eligible Category which satisfies
all the following conditions, namely:-
(i) personnel are regularly and unavoidably exposed, in the ordinary
course of their duties, to exceptional occupational hazards for a
substantial portion of the working day;
(ii) the duties expose personnel to a significant risk of death, serious
bodily injury or long-term adverse health effects beyond those
ordinarily encountered in Government employment; and
(iii) performance of the duties requires the mandatory use of
specialised personal protective equipment and adherence to
prescribed safety protocols; and shall include, but not be limited
to, the following categories, namely:-
(A) Complaint staff engaged in power-related field complaint
redressal with exposure to high voltages;
(B) Sewer men or sanitation staff engaged in sewer maintenance,
garbage handling and unblocking operations;
(C) Firemen, Fire Drivers and Fire-Station personnel engaged in
firefighting and emergency response operations; and
(D) such other category of outsourced personnel, as the Government
may, with the prior concurrence of the Department of Finance,
notify as a Hazardous Category on satisfaction of the above
conditions;
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Explanation.- For the purposes of item (B), "sanitation staff" shall
include Safai Sewaks, Safai Karamcharis and Sweepers, howsoever
designated;
(m) "Outsourcing Agency" means a private service-providing agency
or manpower contractor through whom an Eligible Outsourced
Personnel has been engaged for deployment in an Administrative
Department or Entity;
(n) "Packaged Service" means a service delivered as a complete
packaged or specialised service by an agency which assumes
responsibility for the service, and certified by the Administrative
Departments;
(o) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
(p) "section" means the section of this Act;
(q) "Statutory Contributions" means contributions payable in respect
of Provident Fund, Employees' State Insurance, Gratuity, Maternity
Benefit and such other statutory benefits, as may be required by
law, from time to time; and
(r) words and expressions used but not defined in this Act shall have
the same meaning as, respectively, assigned to them in such relevant
Service Rules, as may be applicable.
CHAPTER II
APPLICABILITY
Applicability.
3. (1) This Act shall apply to all outsourced personnel engaged in the
Administrative Departments and its Entities, who cumulatively satisfy all the
conditions specified in clause (i) of section 2 on the Cut-off Date.
(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), this Act shall not
apply to,-
(a) any person engaged in an honorary capacity or on a part-time basis;
or
(b) any person engaged on a tenure post co-terminus with the life of a
project or scheme of the Central Government or the State
Government; or
(c) any person engaged on an academic arrangement for a fixed term;
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(d) any person engaged on a post, the tenure of which is co-terminus
with the tenure of any office; or
(e) any person who has attained the age of fifty-eight (58) years on the
Cut-off Date or the date of application, as the case may be; or
(f) any person engaged in an activity or function which has been
outsourced as a whole.
(3) Nothing contained in this Act shall affect any case of security of tenure or
any regularisation already conferred under the Government of Punjab,
Department of Personnel policies dated 18.03.2011, 07.10.2022 and 16.05.2023.
4. (1) The Government shall, within thirty (30) days of the commencement
Notification of Cut-off Date.
of this Act, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint a Cut-off Date for
the purposes of this Act.
(2) The Cut-off Date so notified by the Government shall be uniform and
applicable to all the Administrative Departments and Entities of the State.
(3) Only such outsourced personnel shall be entitled to consideration, who are
in continuous service on the Cut-off Date, and who cumulatively satisfy all
the conditions specified in clause (i) of section 2.
CHAPTER III
TRANSITION TO DIRECT CONTRACTUAL ENGAGEMENT
5. (1) Every Eligible Outsourced Personnel who has completed five (5) years
Eligibility for transition.
of Continuous Service on the Date of Eligibility shall, subject to the conditions
of this Act, be transitioned into Direct Contractual Engagement with the
Administrative Department or the Entity, as the case may be:
Provided that in the case of an Eligible Outsourced Personnel belonging
to a Hazardous Category, the qualifying period of Continuous Service for
transition shall be three (3) years, in view of the nature of duties involving
exposure to risk to life, health or limb.
(2) The transition under sub-section (1) shall apply uniformly to all Eligible
Outsourced Personnel, whether engaged through an Outsourcing Agency or
directly by the Administrative Department or Entity.
(3) For the purposes of computing the qualifying period of Continuous Service,
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apply strictly.
(4) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), transition under
this Act shall not create any vested right to permanent absorption, shall not
create a fresh cadre, and shall not create any employment relationship other
than the year-on-year contractual engagement as provided in section 12.
(5) Transition to Direct Contractual Engagement under this Act shall be subject
to the reservation policy of the Government of Punjab, and as notified from
time to time, and as applicable to the cadre or category of engagement
concerned.
6. (1) The Administrative Department shall, immediately upon the
commencement of this Act and in any case not later than forty-five (45) days
thereafter, commence the process for transition of Eligible Outsourced
Process, documentation and adjudication.
Personnel into Direct Contractual Engagement, in such manner and through
such procedure, as may be notified by the Government.
(2) Every Eligible Outsourced Personnel claiming benefit under this Act shall
produce in such form and manner, as may be notified by the Government,-
(a) authenticated attendance records, including Authentic Attendance
records from the date of introduction of Authentic Attendance;
(b) bank statements evidencing the regular monthly Bank Salary Credit
of his wages over the entire period of Continuous Service; and
(c) police clearance from the concerned District Police authorities,
provided that where the said authorities fail to respond within thirty
(30) days, the clearance shall be deemed to have been granted, subject
to subsequent recall:
Provided that where the Eligible Outsourced Personnel is unable
to produce all records under this sub-section by reason of failure of the
Outsourcing Agency to maintain or furnish such records, the personnel
may produce such alternative documentary evidence, including Provident
Fund records, Employees' State Insurance records, agency salary slips,
bank-transfer entries, or affidavit-supported records, as the Government
may notify.
(3) Each Administrative Department shall constitute, in such form and
composition, along with the procedure as the Government may, by notification,
specify, a Departmental Cadre Eligibility Committee, which shall, on a cadre
basis, adjudicate eligibility under clause (i) of section 2 as per the format 864 PUNJAB GOVT. GAZ. (EXTRA), AUGUST 14, 2026
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notified by the Government, and forward its recommendation to the
Government. The Government shall, on a cadre basis, consider the
recommendation and pass an order approving or rejecting the same; and the
said order shall be final, subject to sub-section (3) of section 17.
(4) Each Administrative Department or Entity shall, in respect of individual
applications for transition, constitute,-
(a) an office-level Screening Committee, to decide the eligibility of
individual applicants; and
(b) an office-level Appellate Committee, to hear and decide appeals
arising from the orders of the Screening Committee.
The composition and procedure of the said Committees shall be such,
as may be notified by the Administrative Department or the Entity, as the case
may be. Where the records produced under sub-section (2) reveal any
interruption or irregularity not satisfactorily explained, the application shall be
liable to be rejected after affording the personnel concerned a reasonable
opportunity of being heard, and a speaking order recording the reasons for
such rejection shall be passed.
(5) The following shall be the timelines, namely:-
(a)the Departmental Cadre Eligibility Committee shall be constituted
within thirty (30) days of the commencement of this Act and shall
adjudicate every cadre-wise application within sixty (60) days of
receipt of a complete cadre-wise application;
(b)in respect of cadre-level adjudication under sub-section (3), the
Government shall convey its decision within thirty (30) days of
receipt of the recommendation;
(c)in respect of individual-level adjudication under sub-section (4), the
Administrative Department or Entity shall constitute the office-
level Screening Committee and the office-level Appellate Committee
within thirty (30) days of the final order under sub-section (3). The
office-level Screening Committee shall decide every individual
application within thirty (30) days of receipt of a complete application.
An appeal against the order of the office-level Screening
Committee may be filed before the office-level Appellate Committee
within forty-five (45) days of the date of such order; and the office-
level Appellate Committee shall decide every such appeal within 865
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sixty (60) days of receipt of a complete appeal; and
(d)the entire process of transition under this Act shall be completed as
per such timelines as the Government may, from time to time, specify,
having regard to the fact that eligibility may accrue to different
personnel at different points of time on completion of their
respective qualifying periods of Continuous Service.
(6) Upon transition under this section, the Administrative Department or the
Entity shall assume the role of the direct employer, and all third-party agency
commissions, service charges or any other consideration payable to the
Outsourcing Agency in respect of such personnel shall stand discontinued,
and all existing tripartite or bipartite agreements in respect of such personnel
shall cease to have effect.
(7) The Government shall prepare and maintain real-time centralised digitised
records on the implementation of this Act, containing particulars relating to
cadre-wise eligibility decisions, transitions, Hazardous Category notifications
and such other matters, as may be prescribed; and each Administrative
Department or Entity shall, in like manner, prepare and maintain individual-
wise digitised records of eligibility decisions, transitions, rejections and appeals
in respect of its own personnel.
7. (1) The remuneration payable to a Contractual Appointee on and after Remuneration on transition.
transition under this Act shall be such, as may be determined by the Department
of Finance, by general or special instructions issued from time to time:
Provided that,-
(a)such remuneration shall not be lower than the net take-home
component of the remuneration being paid to the personnel during
his engagement on outsourcing basis, exclusive of the statutory
contributions;
(b)such remuneration shall not be lower than the minimum rate of
wages fixed for the specific category of skill under the Code on
Wages, 2019 (Central Act No. 29 of 2019), or under any other law
relating to minimum wages for the time being in force; and
(c)additional benefits arising from the difference between the
previously paid outsourced contract value and the direct wage cost
may be passed on to the Contractual Appointee after deductions of 866 PUNJAB GOVT. GAZ. (EXTRA), AUGUST 14, 2026
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Provident Fund, Employees' State Insurance, Gratuity or any other
standard deductions or contributions, in accordance with the
instructions of the Department of Finance.
8. (1) With effect from the date of transition into Direct Contractual
Engagement under this Act, it shall be the responsibility of the concerned
Statutory contributions and benefits.
Administrative Department or Entity, as the case may be, to ensure compliance
with the provisions of the applicable Labour Codes and other enactments for
the time being in force in respect of each such Contractual Appointee.
(2) No claim in respect of provident fund, employees' state insurance, gratuity
or any other statutory benefit for the period of outsourced engagement prior
to transition shall lie against the Administrative Department or the Entity, and
the personnel's remedies against the Outsourcing Agency under any law for
the time being in force shall remain unaffected.
9. As regards the requirement of passing of Punjabi language, rule 17 of the
Punjab Civil Services (General and Common Conditions of Service) Rules,
Passing of Punjabi language.
1994, as amended from time to time, and the Punjab State (Group-D) Service
Rules, 1963, as amended from time to time, shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to
the Contractual Appointees engaged under this Act.
10. (1) It shall be a statutory obligation of every Contractual Appointee, as an
incident of engagement under this Act, to operate and abide by such technology-
based interventions, as the Government may from time to time prescribe,
Adoption of technology- based interventions.
including,-
(a) biometric attendance system compulsorily;
(b) digital performance management systems;
(c) the integrated Human Resources Management System (iHRMS); and
(d) electronic service records and digitised assessment frameworks.
(2) Failure to discharge the obligation under sub-section (1), or repeated non-
compliance therewith, shall, after due opportunity of being heard and following
the principles of natural justice, constitute a ground for termination of
engagement under sub-section (4) of section 12:
Provided that where a Contractual Appointee is unable to comply
with any technology-based intervention by reason of any disability recognised
under the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 (Central Act No. 49 of
2016), such alternative procedures shall be provided, as the Government may
prescribe.
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11. (1) With effect from the date of transition into Direct Contractual Authentic Attendance.
Engagement under this Act, every Contractual Appointee shall mandatorily
mark his attendance through a biometric attendance system, as may be specified
by general or special instructions of the Administrative Department or the
Entity; and the Administrative Department or the Entity may, in this behalf
issue such administrative instructions consistent with the provisions of this
Act, as it may deem fit.
(2) The Authentic Attendance record shall, prospectively from the said date,
constitute the sole authoritative record of attendance for all purposes under
this Act.
12. (1) Direct Contractual Engagement under this Act shall be on a year-on-
year basis, renewable on satisfactory performance; and the Government may,
by notification, apply, in whole or in part and with such modifications, as may
Service conditions and performance appraisal.
be considered appropriate, any Service Rules, Conduct Rules, and Punishment
and Appeal Rules to the Contractual Appointees engaged under this Act or
may make separate rules regarding service conditions and performance
appraisal for Contractual Appointees engaged under this Act:
Provided that no year-on-year renewal under this sub-section shall be
made beyond the date on which the Contractual Appointee attains the age of
fifty-eight (58) years.
(2) Renewal or extension of contractual engagement under this Act shall be
based, inter alia, on the performance assessment carried out cumulatively on
monthly basis.
(3) Every Contractual Appointee shall, during his Direct Contractual
Engagement, be entitled to,-
(a) maternity benefits in accordance with the applicable Labour Code
or any other applicable law;
(b) ten (10) days of Casual Leave per calendar year; and
(c) such other leave entitlements and statutory benefits, as the
Government may prescribe.
(4) The contractual engagement may be terminated on the following grounds,
namely:-
(a)misconduct established through due process, in accordance with
the principles of natural justice; or
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under section 10, including refusal or deliberate failure to mark
attendance through the prescribed biometric system under section
11;
(c)interruption or irregularity in attendance not satisfactorily explained;
or
(d)abolition or discontinuance of the function for which the personnel
were engaged, save where redeployment within the same
Administrative Department or Entity is feasible.
(5) Every order of termination under sub-section (4) shall record the grounds
therefore in writing and shall be passed after affording the Contractual
Appointee a reasonable opportunity of being heard.
(6) Every Administrative Department or Entity shall frame and notify cadre-
specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and the methodology for
maintenance of digitised performance and KPI records for such cadre. Such
notification shall be issued simultaneously with, or prior to, the submission of
the cadre for eligibility determination under section 6.
(7) Every Administrative Department or Entity shall maintain complete, accurate
and real-time digital records for every Contractual Appointee, including
attendance and KPI performance.
13. (1) No Contractual Appointee transitioned under this Act shall be replaced
Principle of non- replacement.
by another outsourced or contractual worker, save in case of exigency.
(2) Any person engaged as a replacement under sub-section (1) shall be treated
as a fresh engagement.
14. An Eligible Outsourced Personnel claiming benefit under this Act, who
has instituted or is a party to any suit, writ petition, civil proceedings or other
Withdrawal of pending litigation.
legal proceedings before any court, tribunal or authority claiming regularisation,
absorption, security of tenure or any other relief in respect of the same
engagement, shall, as a condition precedent to transition under this Act,-
(a) furnish an undertaking to withdraw such proceedings within thirty
(30) days of issue of orders of engagement under this Act; and
(b) produce, within sixty (60) days of issue of such orders, a certified
copy of the order of withdrawal recorded by the court, tribunal or
authority concerned.
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CHAPTER IV
APPEALS, GRIEVANCE REDRESSAL AND MISCELLANEOUS
15. (1) Every Administrative Department shall, by notification, constitute or
designate an Employee Grievance Redressal Committee at the office level to
Grievance redressal and appeals.
hear and decide, at the first stage, all individual grievances of Eligible Outsourced
Personnel and Contractual Appointees arising under this Act or the rules made
thereunder; and the Administrative Department may, for that purpose, designate
any committee already constituted under the existing instructions of the
Government.
(2) Appeal from an order of the Employee Grievance Redressal Committee
shall lie to a Departmental Grievance Appellate Committee, to be constituted
by the Administrative Department, by notification. Every such appeal shall be
filed within sixty (60) days of the order appealed against.
(3) The time-limits for disposal of grievances and appeals under this section
shall be as follows, namely,-
(a) the Employee Grievance Redressal Committee shall decide every
individual grievance within forty-five (45) days; and
(b) the Departmental Grievance Appellate Committee shall decide
every individual appeal within ninety (90) days.
(4) The composition and procedure of every Committee constituted under this
section shall be such, as the Government or the Administrative Department,
as the case may be, may, by notification, specify.
16. No suit, prosecution or other legal proceedings shall lie against any officer
of the Government or any member of any Committee constituted under this
Protection of action taken in good faith.
Act for anything which is in good faith done or intended to be done under this
Act or the rules made thereunder.
17. (1) The Chief Secretary to the Government of Punjab shall, within sixty
(60) days from the date of commencement of this Act, constitute a State
State Empowered Committee and review.
Empowered Committee for the purpose of overseeing the implementation of
this Act and for adjudication of cadre-level appeals arising thereunder.
(2) The composition of the State Empowered Committee shall be such, as the
Government may, by notification, specify.
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(3) Cadre-level appeals, including appeals filed by any worker representative
body, union or collective in respect of any cadre-level matter, shall lie solely to
the State Empowered Committee. Every such appeal shall be filed within
sixty (60) days of the order appealed against, and shall be decided by the
State Empowered Committee within ninety (90) days of receipt.
(4) The State Empowered Committee shall undertake a comprehensive review
of the operation of this Act every year and submit its report to the Government.
Power to relax. 18. The Government may, by general or special order, for reasons to be
recorded in writing, relax any provision of this Act or the rules made thereunder
in any class of cases, where it is satisfied that the operation of such provision
causes undue hardship or impedes the object of this Act.
19. (1) The Government may, by notification, in the Official Gazette, make
Power to make rules.
rules for carrying out the purposes of this Act.
(2) Every rule made under this section, shall be laid, as soon as may be, after
it is made, before the House of State Legislature, while it is in session for a
total period of ten (10) days, which may be comprised in one session or in two
or more successive sessions and if, before the expiry of the session in which
it is so laid or the successive sessions as aforesaid, the House agrees in making
any modification in the rule, or the House agrees that the rule should not be
made, the rule shall thereafter, have effect only in such modified form or be of
no effect, as the case may be, however, any such modification or annulment
shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under
that rule.
20. (1) If any difficulty arises in giving effect to the provisions of this Act, the
Government may, by general or special order published in the Official Gazette,
Power to remove difficulty.
make such provision, not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, as may
appear to it to be necessary or expedient for removing such difficulty:
Provided that no order shall be made under this section after the
expiry of a period of three (3) years from the date of commencement of this
Act.
(2) Every order made under this section shall be laid, as soon as may be after
it is made, before the House of the State Legislature.
Interpretation. 21. If any question arises as to the interpretation of this Act, the Government
shall decide the same.
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Repeal.
22. The Punjab Adhoc, Contractual, Daily Wage, Temporary, Work Charged
and Outsourced Employees' Welfare Act, 2016 (Punjab Act No. 55 of 2016),
is hereby repealed from the date of its enactment.
Sd/-
B.B.S. TEJI,
Principal Secretary to Government of Punjab,
Department of Legal and Legislative Affairs.
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PART-III
GOVERNMENT OF PUNJAB
DEPARTMENT OF EXCISE AND TAXATION
(EXCISE AND TAXATION-II BRANCH)
NOTIFICATION
The 13th August, 2026
No.S.O.37/P.A.5/2017/S.112/2026.- In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) read with sub-section (3) of section 112 of the Punjab Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 (Punjab Act No.5 of 2017), and in supersession of the notification of the Government of Punjab, Department of Excise and Taxation, No. S.O.9/P.A.5/2017/S.112/2026, dated the 9th March, 2026 published in Punjab Government Gazette (Extraordinary), dated the 11th March, 2026, except as respects things done or omitted to be done before such supersession, the Government, on the recommendations of the Council, hereby notifies the 31st day of July, 2026, as the date upto which appeal or application, as the case may be, may be filed before the Appellate Tribunal under this Act in respect of all cases where the order sought to be appealed against, —
(i) is communicated to the person preferring the appeal before the 1st day of May, 2026, and all appeals in respect of order communicated on or after 1st May, 2026, may be filed before the Appellate Tribunal as provided in sub-section (1) of section 112 within three months from the date on which such order is communicated;
(ii) is passed before the 1st day of February, 2026, and all applications in respect of orders passed on or after 1st February, 2026 may be filed before the Appellate Tribunal as provided in sub-section (3) of section 112 within six months from the date on which the said order has been passed.
2. It shall be deemed to have come into force on the 30th day of June, 2026.
Sd/-
AJIT BALAJI JOSHI,
Administrative Secretary (Taxation) to Government of Punjab,
Department of Excise and Taxation.
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