Haryana Affiliated Colleges (Security of Service) Act, 1979
No: 15 Dated: Apr, 19 1979
The Haryana Affiliated Colleges (Security of Service) Act, 1979
Act No. 15 of 1979
An Act to provide for the security of service to employees of affiliated colleges.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Haryana in the Thirtieth year of the Republic of India as follows :-
1. Short title. - This Act may be called the Haryana Affiliated Colleges (Security of Services) Act, 1979.
2. Definitions. - In this Act, unless the subject or context otherwise requires, -
(a) "affiliated College" means a college which is not run by the Central Government or the State Government or a local authority which is recognised by the Kurukshetra University under the Kurukshetra University Act, 1956, or is admitted to the privileges of the Maharishi Dayanand University under the Maharishi Dayanand University Act, 1975.
(b) "Director" means the Director of Public Instruction, Haryana, and includes any other officer of the State Government authorised by the Government to exercise the powers and perform the functions of the Director under this Act;
(c) "employee" means any person who is in the whole-time employment of an affiliated college;
(d) "Government" means the Government of the State of Haryana.
(e) "Managing Committee" means the Managing Committee of an affiliated college and includes a person or body of persons for the time being entrusted with the management of the affairs of such a college;
(f) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act; and
(g) "university" means the Kurukshetra University as incorporated under the Kurukshetra University Act, 1956, or the Maharishi Dayanand University as incorporated under the Maharishi Dayanand University Act, 1975.
3. Qualification. - The minimum qualification for recruitment of various classes of employees shall be such as may, from time to time, be laid down by the University concerned :
Provided that the qualification of an existing employee at the commencemnt of this Act shall not be varied to his disadvantage.
4. Method of Recruitment and conditions of service. - The method of recruitment, and the conditions of service, of the employees shall be such as may be prescribed :
Provided that the condition of service of an existing employee at the commencemnt of this Act shall not be varied to his disadvantage.
5. Code of conduct. - The employees shall be governed by such code of conduct as may be prescribed.
6. Salary. - The scales of pay and other allowances and privileges of the employees shall be such as may, from time to time, be specified by the Government.
7. Procedure to be observed before dismissal, removal, reduction in rank or withholding of annual increment of pay with cumulative effect. - (1) No employee shall be dismissed, removed, reduced in rank or no annual increment or increments of pay of any employee shall be withheld with cumulative effect after an enquiry in which he has been informed of the charge against him and given a reasonable opportunity of being heard in respect of those charges :
Provided that this section shall not apply where an employee is dismissed, removed, reduced in rank or where the annual increment or increments of pay of any employee is or are withheld with cumulative effect on the ground of conduct which has led to his conviction on a criminal charge.
(2) The penalty of dismissal, removal from service, reduction in rank and withholding of annual increment or increments of pay with cumulative effect shall not be imposed unless the same is approved by the Director.
(3) Where after the enquiry is referred to in sub-section (1) it is proposed to impose the penalty of dismissal, removal from service, reduction in rank or withholding of annual increment or increments of pay with cumulative effect, the proposal along with the relevant record shall be referred to the Director and the employee concerned shall be informed.
(4) The employee may, within a period of thirty days of the receipt of the intimation referred to in sub-section (3), make a representation against the proposed penalty to the Director who may, after examining the record and giving the parties an opportunity of being heard, by an order in writing, approve the proposed penalty or reduce it or refuse to approve it, if the proposal is found to be mala fide or by way of victimisation or not warranted by the facts and circumstances of the case].
7A. Continuous of suspension beyond six months. - (1) In case the Managing Committee of an affiliated college considers it expedient to keep an employee under suspension beyond the period of six months, it shall submit a detailed report to the Director at least one month before the expiry of the period of six months specifying reasons warranting the extension of the suspension period of the employee beyond six months.
(2) After considering the report under sub-section (1), the Director shall pass an order whether the extension be granted or not. In the event of his refusal to grant the extension, the Managing Committee shall reinstate the employee within a fortnight from the date of receipt of the order, failing which the employee concerned shall be deemed to have been reinstated on the expiry of the aforesaid period.
8. Bar of jurisdiction of Civil Courts. - No Civil Courts shall have jurisdiction to entrain any suit in respect of any proceedings taken under the provisions of this Act.
9. Protection of action taken in good faith. - No suit, prosecution or other legal proceedings shall lie against the Government or any authority or any officer appointed under this Act for anything which is in good faith done or intended to be done in pursuance of this Act or the rules made thereunder.
10. Appeal. - (1) Any employee aggrieved by an order imposing any penalty on him other than dismissal, removal or reduction in rank may, within thirty days of the date of communication to him of such order prefer an appeal to the Director in such form and manner as may be prescribed :
Provided that the Director may entertain the appeal after expiry of the said period of thirty days if he is satisfied that the appellant was prevented by sufficient cause from filing the appeal in time.
(2) The Director may, after hearing the parties, confirm, vary or reverse the order appealed from and may pass such orders, as he deems fit.
11. Power of revision. - The State Government may, either of its own motion or an application received in this behalf, at any time call for the record of any proceedings which is either pending before the Director or in which the Director has passed any order for the purpose of satisfying itself as to the legality or propriety of such order and may pass such order in relation thereto as it thinks fit :
Provided that the State Government shall not pass order under the section prejudicial to any party without giving such party a reasonable opportunity of being heard.
12. Power to issue directives. - The State Government shall be competent to issue such directives to the Managing Committee of an affiliated college as may be necessary for the proper enforcement of the provisions of this Act and the rules made thereunder.
13. Over-riding effect of this Act. - The provisions of this Act shall have effect notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in any other law for the time being in force including any rule, regulation, statute or any ordinance of the university concerned.