Bare Act
The Gujarat Higher Secondary Schools Services Tribunal Act, 1983
The Gujarat Higher Secondary Schools Services Tribunal Act, 1983 creates a specialized judicial tribunal in the State of Gujarat to resolve employment and service disputes involving teachers, headmasters, and non-teaching staff working in higher secondary schools. Instead of forcing school employees to go through long civil court trials when faced with unlawful termination, pay cuts, or unfair treatment by school management, the law provides a dedicated forum to handle these grievances efficiently. It outlines the tribunal's composition, powers, and jurisdiction, granting it civil court authority to issue binding orders, direct employee reinstatement, award financial compensation, and enforce its decisions directly as decrees.
- 1. Short title and extent
- 2. Definitions
- 3. Constitution of Tribunal
- 4. Term of office of members of Tribunal
- 5. Salaries and allowances and other conditions of service of members of Tribunal
- 6. Staff of Tribunal
- 7. Jurisdiction of Tribunal
- 8. Provided that, the Tribunal shall not have jurisdiction to entertain any dispute which is pending for decision before any authority or Court on the date of commencement of this Act.
- 9. Procedure to be followed by Tribunal
- 10. Powers of Tribunal
- 11. Decision of Tribunal to be final and binding
- 12. Power to make rules
- 13. Repeal and saving
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