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Home Dictionary Name: civil service Page 1 of about 57 results (0.003 seconds)Civil post and civil service
Civil post and civil service, the true test for determination of the question whether a person is holding a civil post or is member of the civil service is the existence of a relationship of master and servant between the State and the person holding a post under it and that the existence of such relationship is dependent upon the right of the State to select and appoint the holder of the post, its right to suspend and dismiss him, its right to control the manner and method of his doing the work and the payment by it of his wages and remuneration, State of Gujarat v. Raman Lal Keshav Lal, (1980) 4 SCC 653: (1981) 1 SCR 144: AIR 1981 SC 53 (61). (Gujarat Panchayats Act, 1961, s. 203)...
Civil service
Civil service. This term properly includes all services under the Crown except the naval, military and air services. As to pensions, see SUPER-ANNUATION ACTS. As to a civil servant's right to be a member of a trade union, see TRADE UNION.The administrative branch of a Government, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 240....
Civil service of the State
Civil service of the State, the phrase 'civil service of the State' can be stretched to include the 'officers and servants of the High Court' as well as members of the Subordinate Judiciary, Chief Justice of Andra Pradesh v. L.V.A Dikshutulu, AIR 1979 SC 193 (205). [Constitution of India, Art. 371D, clause (3)]...
Who is a member of the Indian Civil Service
Who is a member of the Indian Civil Service, the expression 'who is a member of the Indian Civil Service' applies to a person who had been a member of ICS immediately before August 15, 1947, V.B. Raju v. Union of India, AIR 1980 SC 1671: (1980) Supp SCC 513: (1981) 1 SCR 599....
Civil Service Commission
In the United States a commission appointed by the President consisting of three members not more than two of whom may be adherents of the same party which has the control through examinations of appointments and promotions in the classified civil service It was created by act of Jan 16 1883 22 Stat 403...
Civil Service Reform
The substitution of business principles and methods for political methods in the conduct of the civil service esp the merit system instead of the spoils system in making appointments to office...
Pension
Pension, an annual allowance made to any one, usually in consideration of past services.By the (English) Succession to the Crown Act, 1707, (6 Anne, c. 7) (c. 41 in the Revised Statutes), and 1 Geo. 1, st. 2, c. 56, no person having a pension under the Crown during pleasure, or for any term of years, is capable of being elected or sitting in the House of Commons.Old Age Pension.--The (English) Old Age Pensions Act, 1908, which was not on a contributory basis, gave to every person the right to a pension who fulfilled certain conditions. The Act, with the amending (English) Old Age Pensions Acts, 1911, 1919 and 1924, has been repealed by the (English) Consolidating Old Age Pensions Act, 1936 (26 Geo. 5 and 1 Edw. 8, c. 31). These conditions are contained in s. 2 of the Act of 1936, as follows:-2. The statutory conditions for the receipt of an old age pension by any person are--(1)The person must have attained the age of seventy, or in the case of a blind person, the age of fifty.(2)The p...
Irrationality
Irrationality, mean what can by now be succinctly referred to Wednesbury unreasonableness, Council of Civil Service Unions v. Minister for the Civil Service, (1984) 3 All ER 935: 1985 AC 374: (1984) 3 WLR 1174 (HL).Means what can be now be succinctly referred to as Wednesbury unreasonableness. It applies to a decision which is so outrageous in its defiance of logic or of accepted moral standards that no sensible person who had applied his mind to the question to be decided could have arrived at it, State of NCT of Delhi v. Sanjeev, (2005) 5 SCC 181.Means what can by now be succinctly referred to as Wednesbury unreasonableness. It applies to a decision which is so outrageous in its defiance of logic or of accepted moral standards that no sensible person who had applied his mind to the question to be decided could have arrived at it, Council of Civil Service Unions v. Minister for the Civil Service, (1984) 3 All ER 935: 1985 AC 374: (1984) 3 WLR 1174 (HL...
Reduction in rank
Reduction in rank, a civil servant is reduced in rank only after an inquiry is held; he is informed of the charges against him in such inquiry and he is given a reasonable opportunity of being heard in respect of those charges. [Constitution of India, Art. 311(2)]Reduction in rank, if a civil servant has a right to a particular rank, then the very reduction from that rank will operate as a penalty, for he will then lose the emoluments and privileges of that rank. If, however, he has no right to the particular rank, his reduction from an officiating higher rank to his substantive lower rank will not ordinarily be a punishment (AIR 1958 SC 36 referred); Shitla Sahai Srivastava v. North Eastern Railways, AIR 1966 SC 1197 (1199): (1966) 3 SCR 61.The reduction in rank contemplated by the Article 311 of Constitution of India, 1950 is reduction as a punishment and where no punishment is involved the Article had no application. Any variation in the order of seniority to the prejudice of an off...
Public Service Commission
Public Service Commission, in England it is known as the Civil Service Commission; consists of three members appointed by the Crown; in Canada too it is known as Civil Service Commission, in Australia it is called Public Service Board, A Commentary on the Constitution of India, 4th Edn., vol. 5, p. 117.In India, a Public Service Commission is appointed for the Union and for each State. [Constitution of India, Art. 315(1)]...
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