Service Law

An Act to regulate the recruitment, and the conditions of service of persons appointed, to the All-India Services common to the Union and the States.

Be it enacted by Parliament as follows :-

• Amended by Act 25 of 1958.
• Amended by Act 27 of 1963.
• Amended by Act 19 of 1975.
• Amended by Act 23 of 1975.

This Act may be called the All-India Services Act, 1951.
Article 312 of the Constitution provides that Parliament may by law regulate the recruitment, and the conditions of service of persons appointed to the All India Services common to the Union and the States. At present there are two such All India Services, namely, the Indian Administrative Service and the Indian Police Service. In the absence of any proviso to Article 312 similar to that included in Article 309, the Government of India is now compelled to deal with many of these matters by means of non-statutory executive orders. This is neither satisfactory nor quite justifiable.