EX-EMPLOYEES OF THE FORMER GOVERNMENT OF EAST PAKISTAN (APPOINTMENT TO PROVINCIAL POSTS) ACT 1986

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THE EX-EMPLOYEES OF THE FORMER GOVERNMENT OF 
EAST PAKISTAN (APPOINTMENT TO PROVINCIAL POSTS) 
ACT, 1986 
(I of 1986) 
CONTENTS 
1. Short title, extent and commencement 
2. Definitions 
3. Appointment 
4. Seniority 
5. Pension 
TEXT 
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THE EX-EMPLOYEES OF THE FORMER GOVERNMENT OF EAST 
PAKISTAN (APPOINTMENT TO PROVINCIAL POSTS) ACT , 1986 
(I of 1986) 
[10th March, 1986] 
An 
Act 
to provide for the appointment and conditions of service of former employees of the 
Government of East Pakistan to posts under the Government of the Punjab. 
Preamble.– WHEREAS it is expedient to provide for the appointment and conditions 
of service of former employees of the Government of East Pakistan to posts under 
the Government of the Punjab; 
 It is hereby enacted as follows:– 
1. Short title, extent and commencement .– (1) This Act may be called the Ex-
employees of the former Government of East Pakistan (Appointment to Provincial 
Posts) Act, 1986. 
 (2) It extends to the whole of the Punjab. 
 (3) It shall come into force at once and shall be deemed  to have taken 
effect on the sixteenth day of December, 1971. 
2. Definitions.– In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or 
context:– 
(a) “employee” means an ex -employee of the former Government of East 
Pakistan who repatriated or migr ated from East Pakistan to Pakistan 
during the period commencing on the 16th December, 1971 and 
ending on the 31st December, 1974, in consequence of occupation of 
the territory by enemy troops or establishment of Bangladesh; 
(b) “former post” means the pos t which was held by an employee at the 
time of his repatriation or migration under clause (a); 
(c) “Grade” means the Grade of the National Pay Scale in which a post or 
group of posts is placed; and 
(d) “post” means a post in a service of the Punjab Provinc e or a post in 
connection with the affairs of the Punjab. 
3. Appointment.– An employee may, with the approval of the competent 
authority, be appointed to an existing or supernumerary post in the grade, as far as 
practicable, equivalent to the scale of the former post of such employee from the 
date he holds such post. 
                                                                 
1This Act w as passed by the Punjab Assembly on 17th Februar y, 1986; assented to by the Governor of the Punjab on 10th 
March, 1986; and, w as published in the Punjab Gazette (Extraordinary), dated 10th March, 1986, Pages 531-C to 531-D. 
Explanation.– In this section, “competent authority”, in relation to a post means the 
authority competent under the Punjab Civil Servants Act, 1974 (Act VIII of 1974) to 
make appointment to that post. 
4. Seniority.– The service rendered under the former Government of East 
Pakistan by an employee shall count towards seniority in the Grade of the post to 
which he may be appointed under section 3. 
5. Pension.– The service rendered under the former Government of East 
Pakistan which qualified for pension under that Government by an employee who is 
appointed to a post, shall count for the purposes of pension under the Government 
of the Punjab.