(l) Vacancies in the grade of Deputy-Secretary shall be filled by promotion from the grade of Under-Secretary.
(2) Persons appointed.and working as Deputy Secretary of the Joint Cadre ofAssistants of the Secretariat and attached offices on the appointed day shall be deemed to be automatically included in this grade.
17 . Posting of members of the service.- The members ofthe service may be also posted to posts other than the posts identified in sub-section (2) of section 6 of this Act and deputation also may be made to equivalent posts.
l8.Seniority.- (l) The relative seniority of rnembers of the Service appointed to any grade before the appointed day shall be regulated by their relative seniority as determined before that day;
Provided that if the seniority of any such member or members of the service had not been specifically determined before that day, it shall be determined by the cadre controlling authority.
(2) All offrcers automatically included in a grade shall rank senior to all officers appointed to that grade rvith effect from any date after the appointed day.
(3) The seniority of persons appointed to any grade after the appointed day shall be regulated in the following manner:- (i\ Assistant grade. (a) The direct recruit shall be ranked inter-se only in the order of merit in which they are placed in the merit list of the Bihar Staff Selection Commission.
They shall be ranked junior to the persons appointed through promotion against r':.;ancies in a particular year.
(b)The inter-se seniority of persons appointed by promotion shall be determined according to the date of promotion.
(ii) Section Officer Grade -(a) The officers appointed through limited competitive examination shall be ranked inter-se in the order of merit in which they are placed at the competitive examination on the results of which they are appointed, the appoihtee of an earlier examination being ranked senior to those of a later examination.
(b) The inter-se-seniority of the officers appointed by promotion after the appointed day shall be regulated by such order in rvhich they are so appointed and shall be determined according to their seniority in the Assistants grade.
(c) The officers appointed through limited competitive examination shall rank senior to the oft-rcers appointed by a promotion against vacancies in a particular year.
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(iii)under-secretry, Deputyokcrettryetc.-Theinter-seseniorityofoffieerspmtnoted tothis grade afterthe appointedday shall be regulatcdby suchorderundcrwhichttryyarc so appointed.
(4) In case of undue delay in the conduct ofexarirination, receipt of recommsdation or overlap of such examinations or recommendations, thq seniority may be determined by the cadre controlling authority.
19. Power to make Rules,- (l) The State Government shall have the powers to make Rules to implement the provisions of this Act.
(2) The Cadre Controlling Authority may make such regulations which are not inconsistent to this Act or the Rules rnade under theAcf for the purpose of making nccessary orconsistent provision on all subjects for the efrective implementation of the Act and the Rules.