Amendment – PEEDA ACT 2006 dt 08.11.2017
OFFICE MEMORANDUM
Subject: PEEDA ACT 2006
ACT XXV OF 2017
[First published, after having received the assent of the Governor of the Punjab, in the Gazette of the Punjab (Extraordinary) dated November 08, 2017.]
                                                                          An Act
further to amend the Punjab Employees Efficiency, Discipline and Accountability Act, 2006.
It is necessary further to amend the Punjab Employees. Efficiency, Discipline and Accountability Act, 2006 (XII of 2006) for purposes of specifying the period after which certain punishments shall cease to have effect, for expressly providing that a former employee shall also have a right of appeal; and, for the matters appearing hereinafter.
Be it enacted by Provincial Assembly of the Punjab as follows:
- Short title and commencement (1) This Act may be cited as the Punjab Employees Efficiency, Discipline and Accountability (Amendment) Act 2017.
- It shall come into force at once.
2. Amendment in section 4 of Act XII of 2006: In the Punjab Employees Efficiency, Discipline and Accountability Act, 2006 (XII of 2006), hereinafter referred to as the Act, in section 4, in subsection (1)
(a) in clause (a), in sub-clause (iv), after the words “five stages”,”
the words “for a specific period” shall be inserted; and
(b) in clause (c)
- in sub-clause (i), after the word “thereof”, the words “for” a specific period keeping in view the loss caused to the Government” shall be inserted; and
- in sub-clause (ii), after the word “thereof”, the words “for a specific period keeping in view the loss caused to Government” shall be inserted.
3. Amendment in section 13 of Act XII of 2006.- In the Act, in section 13:
(a) in subsection (7) and subsection (8) for the words “ninety days” wherever occur, the words “sixty days” shall be substituted;
(b) and after subsection (7) as amended, the following subsection (7a) shall be inserted:
“(7a) the Cabinet Committee on Legislation may allow further time if it is satisfied that the competent authority- I could not decide the case within sixty days for reasons beyond its control.”
4. Amendment in section 19 of Act XII of 2006: In the Act, in section 19, the following Explanation shall be added at the end:
“Explanation: The word “employee”, in this section, shall include a former employee.”
