Section 3:
Regulation of recruitment and conditions of service.
(1) The Central Government may,
after consultation with the Governments of the States concerned, 1*** 2[and by notification in the Official Gazette]] make rules for the regulation of recruitment,
and the conditions of service of persons appointed to an All-India Service.
3[(1A) The power to make rules conferred by this section shall include the power to give
retrospective effect from a date not earlier than the date of commencement of this Act, to the rules or
any of them but no retrospective effect shall be given to any rule so as to prejudicially affect the
interests of any person to whom such rule may be applicable.]
4[(2) Every rule made by the Central Government under this section and every regulation made
under or in pursuance of any such rule, shall be laid, as soon as may be after such rule or regulation is
made, before each House of Parliament while it is in session for a total period of thirty days which
may be comprised in one session or in two or more successive sessions, and if, before the expiry of
the session immediately following the session or the successive sessions aforesaid, both Houses agree
in making any modification in such rule or regulation or both Houses agree that such rule or
regulation should not be made, the rule or regulation shall thereafter have effect only in such modified
form or be of no effect, as the case may be; so, however, that any such modification or annulment
shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that rule or regulation.]
Notes:
1. The words "including the State of Jammu and Kashmir" omitted by the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation
(Adaptation of Central Laws) Order, 2020, vide notification No. S.O. 1123(E) dated (18-3-2020) and vide Union Territory
of Ladakh Reorganisation (Adaptation of Central Laws) Order, 2020, notification No. S.O. 3774(E), dated
(23-10-2020). Earlier ins. by Act 25 of 1958, s. 2.
2. Ins. by Act 19 of 1975, s. 3.
3. Ins. by Act 23 of 1975, s. 2.
4. Subs. by Act 19 of 1975, s. 3, for sub-section (2).