(1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in any award, settlement or agreement, or in any judgment, decree or order of any court or tribunal or other authority or in any other law in force for the time being, appointments to all the vacancies required to be communicated to the Commission under section 12, shall, on or from such date as the Commission may notify in respect of each public sector bank, be made by such public sector bank only on the recommendation of the Commission, except where consultation with the Commission is not necessary under this Act.
(2) If, in any year, the Commission is unable to make recommendation for appointment to all the vacancies communicated to it by a public vector bank under section 12, or if the public sector bank is unable, in any year, to make appointments on the basis of recommendations made by the Commission, the vacancies may be carried forward to the subsequent year, to be filled in the said manner:
PROVIDED that the public sector bank may, in consultation with the Commission, fill such vacancies temporarily in such manner and for such period as the Commission may, by regulations, specify.