(1) Save as provided in sub-section (2) the rules relating to officiation made under the proviso to Article 309 of the Constitution of India shall apply for purposes of officiation under this Act.
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(2) A civil servant shall be deemed to have satisfactorily completed the period of officiation in the promoted post or office and may be promoted to one or more higher classes or grades of service to which he is found eligible for promotion on the basis of his seniority in the seniority list including the final seniority list if his record of service on the date or dates on which he is found eligible for such promotion is satisfactory and indicates that he is eligible for promotion to the next higher cadre and if he possesses the qualifications prescribed in the rules of recruitment applicable at the relevant time for such promotion.
1 [9A. Rules .- (1) The State Government may make rules to carry out the purposes of this Act.
(2) Every rule made under this Act shall be laid as soon as may be after it is made before each House of the State Legislature while it is in session for a total period of thirty days which may be comprised in one session or in two or more successive sessions and if before the expiry of the session immediately following the session or the successive sessions aforesaid both Houses agree in making any modification in the rule or both Houses agree that the rule should not be made, the rule shall, from the date on which the modification or annulment is notified by the Government in the Official Gazette, have effect only in such modified from or be of no effect, as the case may be; so however, that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under such rule.]1
1. Inserted by Act 40 of 1976 and by Act 25 of 1982 w.e.f. 11.4.1974.