Definitions.

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,— (a) “appointment to the Service” means an appointment made to a cadre post in Service and includes an appointment, made according to the terms and provisions of this Act, to an officiating vacancy of a cadre post in Service; (b) “Assistant Executive Engineer” means a member of the Service in the junior scale of pay; (c) “Appendix” means Appendix annexed to this Act; (d) “cadre post” means a permanent post in the Service; (e) “Chief Engineer” means a Chief Engineer of the Department and includes a post declared by the Government as equivalent; (f) “Commission” means the Haryana Public Service Commission or any other authority notified by the Government; (g) “competent authority” means such officer or authority, as the Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint, to perform the functions of a competent authority under this Act; (h) “Department” means the Public Health Engineering Department; (i) “direct appointment” means an appointment by open competition but does not include— (i) an appointment by promotion; and (ii) an appointment by transfer of an officer already in the service of a State Government or Central Government; Explanation.—A Group B Officer who enters the Service by open competitive selection, shall, for the purposes of this Act, be deemed to have entered the Service by direct appointment; (j) “Engineer-in-Chief” means an Engineer-in-Chief of the Department and includes a post declared by the Government as equivalent; (k) “ex-cadre post” means a temporary post not included in the Service, appointment on which confers no right to seniority; (l) “Executive Engineer” means an officer-in-charge of a Division; (m) “Government” means the Government of the State of Haryana in the Administrative Department; (n) “Group B Service” means the Haryana Service of Engineers, Group B in Public Health Engineering Department; (o) “member of the Service” means an officer appointed substantively to a cadre post and includes,— (i) in the case of a direct appointment, an officer on probation or such an officer who, having successfully completed his probation, awaits appointment to a cadre post; (ii) in the case of an appointment by transfer, an officer on probation or such an officer who, having successfully completed his probation, awaits appointment to a cadre post, provided such officer does not have a lien on a substantive post in any Government Department; Explanation.—It is not necessary that a member of the Service shall at any given time be ordinarily doing the work of a cadre post. He may be working on an ex-cadre post for reasons of administrative convenience or while officiating against an ex-cadre post will be deemed to be performing the duties of a cadre post; (p) “prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Act; (q) “Service” means the Haryana Service of Engineers, Group A, Public Health Engineering Department comprising two separate cadres of Civil and Mechanical; (r) “Superintending Engineer” means an officer-in-charge of a Circle and includes a post declared by the Government as equivalent; (s) “University” means— (i) any university incorporated by law in India; (ii) in the case of degrees or diplomas obtained as a result of examination held before the 15th August, 1947, the Punjab, Sind or Dacca University; and (iii) any other university, which is declared by the Government to be a recognized or deemed university for the purposes of this Act.