Applicability.

This Act shall apply to- (a) all offices of the departments of the Government of Punjab and its attached or subordinate offices including all units of local self Government by whatever name called; (b) any Public Sector Enterprise owned or controlled by the Government of Punjab; (c) any entity established or constituted by the Constitution of India or an Act of Parliament, whose expenditure incurred from the Consolidated Fund of the State; (d) any entity or Board or Corporation or Authority or Society or Trust or Commission or Autonomous Body (by whatever name called) established or constituted by an Act of the State Legislature; (e) any entity that receives grant or financial aid out of the Consolidated Fund of the State or retains any levy or user charges or fees collected from the public after being authorized to do so by the State Government and is owned or controlled or managed by the State Government; and (f) any other entity which the State Government may, by notification, specify to be designated as such for the purpose of this Act, being an entity that has been designated to provide services to the public on behalf of the State Government: Provided that all the offices or organizations performing judicial, quasi-judicial and legislative functions are excluded from the application of this Act to the extent of performance of such functions.