section 7
All orders or decisions of the Commission shall be authenticated by the Secretary of the Commission.
The Nagaland for Backward Tribes Commission Act, 2016General201614 sections
Statutory text
Secretary and employees of the Commission:
- (1) The State Government shall provide the Chairperson and Members of the Commission with such officers and employees as may be necessary for the efficient performance of their functions under this Act.
- (2) The State Government shall appoint an officer not below the rank of Joint Secretary to Government of Nagaland as Secretary of the Commission and shall make available to the Commission such other officers and employees as may be necessary for efficient performance of its functions. (3) The Secretary shall be responsible for the proper administration of the affairs of the Commission and its day to day management and shall exercise and discharge such other powers and functions as may be prescribec by the State Government. (4) The salary and allowances payable to, and other terms and conditions of service of the Secretary, other officers and employees, appointed for the purpose of the Commission shall be as prescribed by the State Government. 8. Removal of Chairperson and Member:
- (1) The Chairperson and Member of the Commission shall be removed from his office only by order of the Governor on the ground of proven misbehavior or incapacity after the High Court, on a reference made to it by the Governor, has on inquiry reported that the Chairperson and Member of the Commission, as the case may be, ought on such ground be removed.
- (2) The Governor may suspend from office, and if deemed necessary also prohibit from attending office during inquiry, the Chairperson and the Members of the Commission in respect of whom a reference has been made to the High Court under sub-section (1) until the Governor has passed orders on receipt of the report of the High Court on such reference.
- (3) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), the Governor may by order remove from office the Chairperson and Member of the Commission if a Chairperson and Member of the Commission, as the case maybe,-
- (a) is adjudge and insolvent; or (b) has been convicted of an offence which, in the opinion of the Governor, involves moral turpitude; or
- (c) engages during his term of office in any paid employment outside the duties of his office, or
- (d) is, in the opinion of the Governor, unfit to continue in office by reason of infirmity of mind or body; or
- (e) has acquired such financial or other interest as it likely to affect prejudicially his functions as the Chairperson or Member of the
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