Constitution and Classification of Fire and Emergency Service

Constitution and Classification of Fire and Emergency Service

1. (1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, the State Fire and Emergency Service shall consist of such number of staff in various ranks having such powers, functions and duties as the State Government may, by general or special order, determine.
2. (2) The State Government may prescribe in the rules -
   • (i) the different posts of the state Fire and Emergency service;
   • (ii) the mode of recruitment of staff, grade of post, the qualification, pay, allowances and other conditions of service of the officers and other staff engaged therein and matters connected therewith;
3. (3) The State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, review the pattern of the existing Fire and Emergency Service in the State and if deemed fit may modify the same: Provided that, for local Fire and Emergency Service, the rules framed under this sub-section may not include mode of recruitment of staff, pay, allowances and matters connected therewith.
4. (4) Save as otherwise provided by or under this Act, every person holding office either as a Fire Officer or a staff or an employee of an existing Fire Brigade or Fire and Emergency Service of any Authority on the date immediately before the commencement of this Act, shall continue to hold office on the same terms and conditions as were applicable to him immediately before such date and shall exercise such powers and perform such duties as before and in addition to those as are conferred on them by or under this Act.