(1) This Act may be called the Punjab Scheduled Castes and Backward Classes (Reservation in Services) Act, 2006.
(2) It shall come into force at once.
2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, -
(a) "appointment" means an appointment made by direct recruitment, by promotion or by transfer of a person already in service of the Government of India or a State Government;
(b) "Backward Class" means a Backward Class, declared as such by the State Government by notification in the Official Gazette from time to time;
(c) "establishment" means any office of the State Government, a local authority or a statutory authority 1 For Statement of Objects and Reasons, see Punjab Government Gazette (Extraordinary), dated the 15th September, 2006, page 1837-1838.
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Definitions.
constituted under any State Law for the time being in force, or a Board or Corporation in which not less than fifty-one per cent of the paid up share of capital is held by the Government of the State of Punjab and includes a university or college affiliated to the university, primary and secondary schools and other educational institutions, which are owned by the State Government and also includes an establishment in public sector;
(d) "establishment in public sector" means any industry, trade, business or occupation owned, controlled or managed by, -
(i) the State Government; and
(ii) Government Company as defined in Section 617 of the Companies Act, 1956, in which not less than fifty-one per cent of the paid up share capital is held by the Government of the State of Punjab;
(e) "prescribed" means prescribed by the rules made under this Act;
(f) "Scheduled Castes" means Scheduled Castes, notified by the President of India under Article 341 of the Constitution of India by the Constitution (Scheduled Castes) Order, 1950, as amended from time to time;
(g) "section" means section of this Act; and
(h) "State Government" means Government of the State of Punjab in the Department of Welfare of Scheduled Castes and Backward Classes.
3. This Act shall not apply to, -
(a) any employment under the Central Government;
(b) any employment in private sector; and
(c) any employment in domestic service.