#THE ALL-INDIA SERVICES ACT, 1951 
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##ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS 
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SECTIONS 
1.  Short title. 
2.  Definition. 
2A. Other All-India Services 
3.  Regulation of recruitment and conditions of service. 
4.  Continuance of existing rules. 



#THE ALL-INDIA SERVICES ACT, 1951 

##ACT NO. 61 OF 1951 

[29th October, 1951.] 

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:— 

1. **Short title.**—This Act may be called the All-India Services Act, 1951. 

2. **Definition.**—In this Act, the expression “an All-India Service” means the service known as the 
Indian  Administrative  Service  or  the  service  known  as  the  Indian  Police  Service, or any other 
service specified in section 2A. 

2A. **Other All-India Services.**—With effect from such date as the Central Government may, 
by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint in this behalf, there shall be constituted the following 
All-India Services and different dates may be appointed for different services, namely:— 

   1. The Indian Service of Engineers (Irrigation, Power, Buildings and Roads); 
   2. The Indian Forest Service; 
   3. The Indian Medical and Health Service. 

3. **Regulation of recruitment and conditions of service.**—(1)  The  Central  Government  may, 
after  consultation  with  the  Governments  of  the  States  concerned, 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. 

(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. 

(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. 

4. **Continuance of existing rules.**—All rules in force immediately before the commencement of 
this Act and applicable to an All-India Service shall continue to be in force and shall be deemed to be 
rules made under this Act.