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LEGISLATIVE SUPPLEMENT

Contents

Pages

Part - I

Acts

The Punjab State Outsourced Personnel

(Transition to Contractual Engagement)

Act, 2026.

(Punjab Act No. 10 of 2026)

Part - II

Ordinances

Nil

Part - III

Delegated Legislation

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

Nil

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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)

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.

(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.

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

Aadhaar-enabled, geo-tagged or biometric device, or any other

Short title,

extent and

commencement.

Definitions.

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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

completed by the Eligible Outsourced Personnel prior to the

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commencement of this Act, the Date of Eligibility shall be the date

of commencement ofthis 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

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,

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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

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

State of Punjab, or from the funds of an Entity which is owned,

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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;

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

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;

(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

Applicability.

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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

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

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,

the requirement of Continuous Service under clause (d) of section 2 shall

Notification of

Cut-off Date.

Eligibility for

transition.

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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

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

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

Process,

documentation

and

adjudication.

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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

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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

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

Remuneration

on transition.

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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

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,

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,

including,-

(a) biometric attendance system compulsorily;

(b) digital performance management systems;

(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.

Statutory

contributions

and benefits.

Passing of

Punjabi

language.

Adoption of

technology-

based

interventions.

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11. (1) With effect from the date of transition into Direct Contractual

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

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

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

(b)failure or repeated non-compliance with the statutory obligation

Authentic

Attendance.

Service

conditions and

performance

appraisal.

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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;

(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

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

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.

Principle of non-

replacement.

Withdrawal of

pending

litigation.

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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

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

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

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.

Grievance

redressal and

appeals.

Protection of

action taken in

good faith.

State Empowered

Committee and

review.

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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.

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

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,

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.

21. If any question arises as to the interpretation of this Act, the Government

shall decide the same.

Power to relax.

Power to make

rules.

Power to

remove

difficulty.

Interpretation.

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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.

Repeal.

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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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