S.1 Short title

This Act may be called The All India Services Act, 1951.

S.2 Definition

       In this Act, the expression "an All India Service" means the service known as the Indian Administrative Service or the service known as the Indian Police Service,1[or any other service specified in Section 2A].
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       1. Inserted by Act 27 of 1963, section 2.

S.2(a) Other All-India Services

       1[2A - Other All-India Services
       With effect from such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint in this behalf, there shall be constituted the following All India Services and different dates may be appointed for different services, namely: -
       1. The Indian Service of Engineers (Irrigation, Power, Buildings and Roads);
       2. The Indian Forest Service;
       3. The Indian Medical and Health Service.
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       1. Inserted by the Section 3, Act 27 of 1963, section 2.

S.3 Regulation of recruitment and conditions of service

       (1) The Central Government may, after consultation with the Governments of the States concerned,1[including the State of Jammu and Kashmir]2[and by notification in the Official Gazette] make rules for the regulation of recruitment, and the conditions of service of persons appointed to an All India Service.
       3[(1A) The power to make rules confered by this section shall include the power to give retrospective effect from a date not earlier than the date of commencement of this Act, to the rules or any of them but no retrospective effect shall be given to any rule so as to prejudicially affect the interests of any person to whom such rule may be applicable.]
       4[(2) Every rule made by the Central Government under this section and every regulation made under or in pursuance of any such rule, shall be laid as soon as may be after such rule or re

S.4 Continuance of existing rules

All rules in force immediately before the commencement of this Act and applicable to an All India Service shall continue to be in force and shall be deemed to be rules made under this Act.