Seniority

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(1) The seniority of the members of the Service shall be determined separately for the Civil, Mechanical, Computer and Electrical cadre.
(2) Executive Engineer promoted from Group B Service shall be senior to the Executive Engineer appointed by transfer.
(3) In the case of the Executive Engineers appointed by transfer from different cadres, their seniority shall be determined according to pay, preference being given to a member, who was drawing a higher rate of pay in his previous appointment, and if the rates of pay drawn are also the same, then by the length of their service in the appointments; and if the length of such service is also the same, the older member shall be senior to the younger member.
(4) Where a member of the Service, for a cause which the Government considers to be sufficient, is unable to join the Service or continues with the Government's approval on deputation outside the Service, it shall be open to the Government to allow him credit for such service as if it was a Service rendered under this Act for the purposes of the fixation of his seniority. Explanation.-All employment on deputation after a member has joined the Service and has had his seniority fixed under this Act, shall count as if it was employment in the Service and shall not in any way affect the seniority already fixed, except to the extent that such seniority would in any case have been affected, had the member of the Service continued to work in the Department.

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