The Punjab State Outsourced Personnel (Transition to Contractual Engagement) Act, 2026
Chapter II APPLICABILITY
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Chapter II APPLICABILITY
3. Applicability
Statutory text
- (1) This Act shall apply to all outsourced personnel engaged in the Administrative Departments and its Entities, who cumulatively satisfy all the conditions specified in clause (i) of section 2 on the Cut-off Date.
- (2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), this Act shall not apply to,-
- (a) any person engaged in an honorary capacity or on a part-time basis; or
- (b) any person engaged on a tenure post co-terminus with the life of a project or scheme of the Central Government or the State Government; or
- (c) any person engaged on an academic arrangement for a fixed term; or
- (d) any person engaged on a post, the tenure of which is co-terminus with the tenure of any office; or
- (e) any person who has attained the age of fifty-eight
- (58) years on the Cut-off Date or the date of application, as the case may be; or
- (f) any person engaged in an activity or function which has been outsourced as a whole.
- (3) Nothing contained in this Act shall affect any case of security of tenure or any regularisation already conferred under the Government of Punjab, Department of Personnel policies dated 18.03.2011, 07.10.2022 and 16.05.2023.
Chapter II APPLICABILITY
4. Notification of Cut-off Date
Statutory text
- (1) The Government shall, within thirty
- (30) days of the commencement of this Act, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint a Cut-off Date for the purposes of this Act.
- (2) The Cut-off Date so notified by the Government shall be uniform and applicable to all the Administrative Departments and Entities of the State.
- (3) Only such outsourced personnel shall be entitled to consideration, who are in continuous service on the Cut-off Date, and who cumulatively satisfy all the conditions specified in clause (i) of section 2.
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