Section Text
In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,--
(a) "appointed day" means the 1st day of November, 1956;
(b) "appointment" includes a permanent, quasi-permanent or temporary appointment, but does not include an appointment of a casual nature;
(c) "capital area" means the area comprising of the cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad within the meaning of the Hyderabad Municipal Corporations Act, 1955; (Hyderabad Act II of 1956)
(d) "First Schedule post" means a post specified in the First Schedule, but does not include--
(i) any Second Schedule post;
(ii) any post of police officer as defined in clause (b) of section 3 of the Hyderabad City Police Act, 1348F.
(e) (Hyderabad Act IX of 1348 F) "Hyderabad Civil Service Regulations" means the regulation known as such in England and known in Urdu as the Zabita Mulazimat Civil Sarkare Ali (being regulations in Urdu promulgated in obedience to the Firman dated 25th Ramzan 1337 H of the then Ruler of Hyderabad and published in the Jarred e Alamia dated the 7th of Azur 1329 F) as in force immediately before the appointed day;
(f) "Mulki Rules" means such of the provisions of the Hyderabad Civil Service Regulations as have continued to be in force on and from the 26th January, 1950, by virtue of clause (b) of article 35 of the Constitution;
(g) "non-gazetted post" means a post under the Government of the State of Andhra Pradesh which is not a Gazetted post;
(h) "pay" means basic pay plus special pay, if any, sanctioned to a post but does not include various allowances;
(i) "Schedule post' means a First Schedule post or a Second Schedule post;
(j) "Second Schedule post" means a post specified in the Second Schedule;
(k) "State Government" means the Government of the State of Andhra Pradesh;
(l) "Superior Service" and "Inferior Service" shall have the same meanings as in the Hyderabad Civil Service Regulations;
(m) "Telengana area" means the area comprised in the territories specified in sub-section (1) of section 3 of the States Reorganisation act, 1956 (37 of 1956);
(n) "Telengana Vacancy" , in relation to a Second Schedule post, means the second vacancy in every unit of three vacancies in posts of the same class, being vacancies which are to be filled by direct recruitment.