(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act and the rules and bye-laws made thereunder, a committee may, and if so required by the State Government shall, employ other officers and servants and may assign to such officers and servants such remuneration as it may think fit, and may suspend, remove, dismiss, or otherwise punish any officer or servant so appointed.
3[Provided that no person who is a member of a committee shall be employed by a committee during the tenure of his term and for a period of twelve months thereafter.
The Punjab Municipal Act, 1911, Section 39 33
1. Sub-section 6A inserted by Punjab Act 38 of 1976
2. Sub-section 7 substituted by Punjab Act 29 of 1975
3. Proviso added by Punjab Act 24 of 1973, Section 10 1[(2) Nothing in this section shall prevent the State Government from making any provision in the rules under this Act for the reservation of appointments or posts and to lay down methods to secure such reservation in favour of members of the Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Tribes and such other backward classes of citizens which in the opinion of the State Government are not adequately represented in the services under the Municipal Committee.]
Section 40
40. [Omitted by Act 8 of 1974] Section 41