#THE PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT (REQUIREMENT AS TO RESIDENCE) ACT, 1957 
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##ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS 
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SECTIONS 
1. Short title and commencement. 
2. Repeal of existing laws prescribing requirements as to residence. 
3. Power to make rules in respect of certain classes of public employment in certain areas. 
4. Parliamentary scrutiny of rules. 
5. Duration of section 3 and rules. 



#THE PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT (REQUIREMENT AS TO RESIDENCE) ACT, 1957 

##ACT NO. 44 OF 1957 

[7th December, 1957.] 

An Act to make in pursuance of clause (3) of article 16 of the Constitution special provisions for 
  requirement as to residence in regard to certain classes of public employment in certain areas 
  and to repeal existing laws prescribing any such requirement. 

  BE it enacted by Parliament in the Eighth Year of the Republic of India as follows:— 

1. **Short title and commencement.**—(1) This  Act  may  be  called  the  Public  Employment 
(Requirement as to Residence) Act, 1957. 

(2) It  shall  come  into  force  on  such  date  as  the  Central  Government  may,  by  notification  in  the 
Official Gazette, appoint. 

2. **Repeal of existing laws prescribing requirements as to residence.**—Upon the commencement of 
this Act, any law then in force in any State or Union territory by virtue of clause (b) of article 35 of the 
Constitution prescribing, in regard to a class or classes of employment or appointment to an office under 
the Government of, or any local or other authority within, that State or Union territory, any requirement as 
to  residence  therein  prior  to  such  employment  or  appointment  shall  cease  to  have  effect  and  is  hereby 
repealed. 

3. **Power  to  make  rules  in  respect  of  certain  classes  of  public  employment  in  certain areas.**—
(1) The Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, make rules prescribing, 
in regard to appointments to— 

  (a) any subordinate service or post under the State Government of Andhra Pradesh, or 

  (b) any subordinate service or post under the control of the Administrator of Himachal Pradesh, 
Manipur or Tripura, or 

  (c) any service or post under a local or other authority (other than a cantonment board) within 
the Telangana area of Andhra Pradesh or within the Union territory of Himachal Pradesh, Manipur or 
Tripura, 

any requirement as to residence within the Telangana area or the said Union territory, as the case may be, 
prior to such appointment. 

(2) In this section,— 

  (a) “Himachal Pradesh” includes the territories specified in sub-section (1) of section 5 of the 
Punjab Reorganisation Act, 1966 (11 of 1966); 

  (aa) ”subordinate  service  or  post”  means  any  service  or  post  appointments  to  which  are  not 
notified in the Official Gazette but includes any service of tehsildars; 

  (b) “Telangana area” comprises all the territories specified in sub-section (1) of section 3 of the 
States Reorganisation Act, 1956 (37 of 1956). 

4. **Parliamentary scrutiny of rules.**—Every rule made under this Act shall be laid, as soon as may 
be after it 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  successive  sessions,  and  if  before  the  expiry of  the 
session  in  which  it  is  so  laid  or  the  session  immediately  following,  both  Houses  agree  in  making any 
modification in the rule or both Houses agree that the rule should not be made,  the rule 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. 

5. **Duration of section 3 and rules.**—Section  3  and  all  rules  made  thereunder  shall  cease  to  have 
effect on the expiration of fifteen years from the commencement of this Act, but such cesser shall not 
affect the validity of any appointment previously made in pursuance of the said rules.