Definitions.

In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires,—

1. (a) “Act” means the Goa, Daman and Diu (Absorbed Employees) Act, 1965;
2. (b) “Administrator” means the Administrator of the Union territory appointed by the President under article 239 of the Constitution;
3. (c) “Appointed Day” means the 1 st day of February, 1966; Manual of Goa Laws (Vol. I) – 18 – (Absorbed Employees) Act
4. (d) “Central rules” means the rules relating to conditions of service generally applicable to persons appointed to the Central Civil Services;
5. (e) “existing pay” means the pay admissible to an absorbed employee immediately before the appointed day by way of basic pay 2[and shall include—
   • (i) complementary pay;
   • (ii) the charge allowance granted under rule 15;
   • (iii) compensatory pay or special pay granted by the Portuguese Government to any of their employees in Goa, Daman and Diu with a view to protecting the reduction in their pay as a result of re-organisation and revision of pay scales; and
   • (iv) increment of ten per cent of pay granted by the Portuguese Government to any of their employees in Goa, Daman and Diu on completion of a stipulated years of service on the ground that there was no scope of further promotion”];
6. (f) “absorbed employee” means an absorbed employee as defined in clause (a) of section 2 of the Act and who on the appointed day is serving either in connection with the administration of the Union territory or in any department of the Central Government; Explanation:— Persons who were under orders of transfer from Goa, Daman and Diu and were in transit on the 20 th December, 1961 to take up employment in any Portuguese colony but returned to the Union territory after that date instead of joining their new posts and were allowed to continue in service shall, if they are serving in connection with administration of the Union territory or in any department of the Central Government on the appointed day, be deemed to be absorbed employees for the purpose of these rules.
7. (g) “absorbed post” means an absorbed post as defined in clause (b) of section 2 of the Act, which is in existence on the appointed day either for the purpose of Administration of the Union territory or any department of the Central Government.
8. (h) “Union territory” means the Union territory of Goa, Daman and Diu.