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Businessrule Instruction
PART I
RULES OF BUSINESS
In exercise of the powers conferred by clauses (2) and (3) of Article 166 of the Constitution of
India, and in supersession of all previous Rules made in this behalf the Governor of Tamil Nadu
hereby makes the following rules:-
RULES.
1. These rules may be called the Tamil Nadu Government Business Rules, 1978.
(aa) "Chief Secretary" means the Chief Secretary to the Government of the State.
(b) "Council" means the Council of Ministers constituted under Article 163 and includes a
Committee of the Council;
(c) "Secretary" means a Secretary to the Government of the State; and includes Special
Secretary, an Additional Secretary, Joint Secretary and a Deputy Secretary to the Government of the
State;
3. Unless the context otherwise requires, the General Clauses Act, 1897 (Central Act X of 1897)
shall apply for the interpretation of these rules, as it applies for the interpretation of a Central Act.
SECTION I
4. The business of the Government shall be transacted in the departments specified in the First
Schedule, and shall be classified and distributed between those departments as laid down therein.
Provided that transfer of subjects from one department to another or allocation of a new subject to
a department may be made under the orders of the Chief Minister.
5. The Governor shall, on the advice of the Chief Minister, allot the business of the Government
among the Ministers by assigning one or more departments to the charge of a Minister:
Provided that nothing in this rule shall prevent the assigning of one department to the charge of
more than one Minister.
Explanations - (1) In cases, where orders allotting business have to issue urgently, the allotment
may be made by the Chief Minister and the cases circulated to the Governor after issue of orders.
(2) Where a particular department of the Secretariat is in the charge of more than one Minister,
the senior most of those Ministers, shall be deemed to be in administrative charge of the department
in respect of establishment and other common
matters arising in that department.
Provided that the Parliamentary Secretaries are not authorised to call for any files from the
Secretariat Departments or give instructions directly to Secretariat Officers regarding the disposal of
files.
6. Each department of the Secretariat shall consist of a Secretary to the Government, who shall
be the official head of that department, and of such other officers and servants subordinate to him as
the State Government may determine:
Provided that
(a) more than one department may be placed in charge of the same Secretary.
(b) the work of a department may be divided between two or more Secretaries.
7. The Council shall be collectively responsible for all executive orders issued in the name of the
Governor in accordance with these rules, whether such orders are authorized by an individual Minister
on a matter appertaining to his portfolio or as the result of discussion at a meeting of the Council or
otherwise.
8. Subject to the orders of the Chief Minister under rule 14, all cases referred to in the Second
Schedule shall be brought before the Council in accordance with the provisions of the rules contained
in Section II.
Provided that no case in regard to which the Finance Department is required to be consulted
under rule 10 shall, save in exceptional circumstances under the directions of the Chief Minister, be
discussed by the Council unless the Finance Minister has had an opportunity for considering it.
9.(1) Without prejudice to the provisions of rule 7, the Minister incharge of a department shall be
primarily responsible for the disposal of the business appertaining to that department.
(2) Every Minister and every Secretary shall transmit to the Chief Minister all such information with
respect to the business of the Government as the Chief Minister may from time to time, require to be
transmitted to him.
10.(1) No department shall, without previous consultation with the Finance Department, authorize
any orders (other than orders pursuant to any general delegation made by the Finance Department)
which
(a) either immediately or by their repercussions, will affect the finances of the State or which, in
particular,
(i) involve any grant of land or assignment of revenue or concession, grant, lease or licence of
mineral or forest rights or a right to water power or any or any easement or privilege in respect of such
concession; or
(b) relate to the number of grading or cadre of posts or the emoluments or other conditions of
service of posts.
(2) Subject to the general provisions of rule 8, no proposal which requires the previous
consultation of the Finance Department under this rule, but in which the Finance Department has not
concurred, and the Finance Minister has agreed with the Finance Department, may be proceeded
with unless a decision to that effect has been taken by the Council.
(3) No reappropriation shall be made by any department, other than the Finance Department,
except in accordance with such general delegations as the Finance Department may have made.
(4) Except to the extent that the power may have been delegated to the Departments under the
rules approved by the Finance Department, every order of an Administrative Department conveying a
sanction to be enforced in audit shall, after obtaining the concurrence of the Finance Department, be
communicated to the audit authorities by the Administrative Department and the fact of such
concurrence shall be indicated in the order as follows:-
"This order issues with the concurrence of the Finance Department - vide its U.O.No.
.............dated............"
(5) Nothing in this rule shall be construed as authorizing any department, including the Finance
Department to make reappropriations from one grant specified in the Appropriation Act to another
such grant.
11. All orders or instruments made or executed by or on behalf of the Government of the State
shall be expressed to be made or executed in the name of the Governor.
12.(1) Every order or instrument of the Government of the State shall be signed either by the Chief
Secretary, a Secretary, a Special Secretary an Additional Secretary, a Joint Secretary, a Deputy
Secretary or an Under Secretary to the Government of the State or such other officer as may be
specially empowered in that behalf in the manner specified below and such signature shall be
deemed to be the proper authentication of such order or instrument.
(Signature).
(2) A Minister shall, while on tour, be competent to give orders relating to his own department to
local officers. These orders shall be in writing, and written information regarding them shall be sent to
the Administrative Secretary concerned. He shall also be competent, while on tour, to ask a local
officer, on receipt of a petition or a representation relating to departments which are not under his
control, to enquire into it and to submit a report about it to his superior officers.
SECTION II
13. The Chief Secretary or such other officer as the Chief Minister may appoint, shall be the
Secretary to the Council.
14. All cases referred to in the Second Schedule shall be submitted to the Chief Minister after
consideration by the Minister-in-charge, with a view to obtaining his orders for circulation of the case
under rule 15 or for bringing it up for consideration at a meeting of the Council.
15.(1) The Chief Minister may direct that any case referred to in the Second Schedule may,
instead of being brought up for discussion at a meeting of the Council, be circulated to the Ministers
for opinion. Such case shall be circulated through the Secretary to the Council. If all the Ministers
are unanimous and the Chief Minister thinks that a discussion at a meeting of the Council is
unnecessary, the case shall be decided without such discussion. If the Ministers are not unanimous
or if the Chief Minister thinks that a discussion at a meeting is necessary, the case shall be discussed
at a meeting of the Council.
(2) If it is decided to circulate any such case to the Ministers copies of all papers relating to the
case which are circulated among the Ministers shall simultaneously be sent to the Governor. Where
such a case is circulated in original to the Ministers, it should be circulated to the Governor also after
all the Ministers have seen it.
(b) the Finance Minister (if the case involves financial issues);
Provided that where a case is to be circulated to the Chief Minister in his capacity as the Finance
Minister or as the Minister-in-charge; it shall be circulated to him last, after all other Ministers have
seen it.
16.(1) In cases which are circulated for opinion under rule 15, the Chief Minister may direct, if the
matter be urgent, that if any Minister, fails to communicate his opinion to the Secretary to the Council
by a date to be specified by him in the memorandum for circulation, it shall be assumed that he has
accepted the recommendations contained therein.
(2) If the Ministers have accepted the recommendations contained in the memorandum for
circulation or the date by which they were required to communicate their opinion has expired, the
Secretary to the Council shall submit the case to the Chief Minister. If the Chief Minister accepts
the recommendations and if he has no observation to make, he shall return the case to the Secretary
to the Council who will pass it on to the Secretary concerned who will thereafter take steps to issue
the necessary orders.
17. When it has been decided to bring a case before the council the department to which the case
belongs shall intimate the fact to the Secretary to the Council specifying the subject for discussion and
unless the Chief Minister otherwise directs, prepare a memorandum indicating with sufficient
precision the salient facts of the case and the points for decision. Such memorandum and such other
papers as are necessary to enable the case to be disposed of shall be circulated to the Ministers as
soon as the subject is included in the agenda. Copies of the memorandum and other papers shall at
the same time be sent to the Governor.
18. In cases which concern more Ministers than one, the Ministers shall attempt by previous
discussion to arrive at an agreement. If an agreement is reached the memorandum referred to in rule
16 or 17 shall contain the joint recommendations of the Ministers; and if no agreement is reached,
the memorandum shall state the points of difference and the recommendations of each of the
Ministers concerned.
19.(1) The Council shall meet at such place and time as the Chief Minister may direct.
(2) After an agenda specifying the cases to be discussed at a meeting of the Council has been
approved by the Chief Minister, copies thereof shall be sent by the Secretary to Council to the Chief
Minister and other Ministers so as to reach them two clear days before the date of such meeting. The
memorandum for the council of Ministers referred to in rule 17 shall also be circulated to the Ministers
so as to reach them two clear days before the date of such meeting. The Chief Minister, may in the
case of emergency, curtail the said period of two days. Copies of the agenda and the memoranda
shall at the same time be sent to the Governor.
(3) If any Minister is on tour, the agenda shall be forwarded to the Secretary in the department
concerned who, if he considers that the discussion of any case should await the return of the Minister,
may request the Secretary to the Council to take the orders of the Chief Minister for postponement of
the discussion of the case until the return of the Minister.
(4) The Chief Minister or in his absence, any other Minister nominated by him shall preside at
every meeting of the Council. The Council may by general or special invitation request the Governor
to preside at meetings of the Council.
(5) A quorum of Ministers numbering fifty per cent of the strength of the Cabinet plus one will be
necessary for the transaction of the business at the Meeting.
(6) The Secretary in the department to which a case belongs and the Secretary in any other
department concerned shall also attend the meeting, if so directed by the Chief Minister or the
Minister presiding.
(7)(a) The Secretary to the Council shall attend all the meeting of the Council and shall prepare
a record of the decisions. The decisions in each meeting of the Council of Ministers shall, after
approval by the Chief Minister or any other Minister presiding, be kept by the Secretary to the
Council. He shall forward a copy of such record to each of the Ministers including the Chief Minister.
He shall also send a copy of such record to the Governor. The copies of the record of decision in
relevant cases should also be communicated to the Secretary or Secretaries of the department or
departments concerned. The records of decision shall be kept in a running folder in chronological
order:
Provided that in respect of the meetings of the Council held to consider the annual financial
statement, the procedure laid down in sub-rule (b) shall apply.
(b) As regards the meetings of the Council held to consider the annual financial statement, the
Notes shall be given to Ministers at the meetings of the Council. After discussion and decision, the
Notes shall be taken back. One copy of the minutes of the meeting shall then be circulated to Chief
Minister for his approval.
20. When a case has been decided by the Council after discussion at a meeting, the Minister
concerned shall take action to give effect to the decision. If, however, any deviation is proposed to be
made from that decision, the case shall be submitted to the Chief Minister by the Minister
concerned and further action on it will be taken according to the directions of the Chief Minister. The
Secretary in the department concerned will in each such case cause to be supplied to the Secretary
to the Council such documents as the latter may require to enable him to maintain his record of the
case.
SECTION III
A. GENERAL
21. Except as otherwise provided by any other rule, cases shall ordinarily be disposed of by or
under the authority of the Minister incharge who may by means of Standing Orders give such
directions as he thinks fit for the disposal of cases in the department. Copies of such Standing Orders
shall be sent to the Governor and the Chief Minister.
22. Each Minister shall by means of Standing Orders arrange with the Secretary of the
department what matters or classes of matters are to be brought to his personal notice. Copies of
such Standing Orders shall be sent to the Governor and the Chief Minister.
23. Except as otherwise provided herein cases shall be submitted by the Secretary in the
department to which the case belongs to the Minister incharge:
Provided that where the case relates to a matter in which the Minister concerned has a personal
interest, it shall be submitted to the Chief Minister who may direct that the case shall be circulated to
anyone or more of the other Ministers.
24. Notwithstanding anything contained in these rules, where any undertaking, providing road
transport service, is carried on by the State Government with reference to section 97 of the Motor
Vehicles Act, 1988 (Central Act 59 of 1988), the powers and functions which the State Government
may exercise and perform under section 100 and 102 of the said Act and the rules relating thereto
shall be exercised and performed by the Secretary to the State Government in the Home Department
on behalf of the State Government and cases relating to such powers and functions of the State
Government under the said sections 100 and 102 and the said rules need not be submitted to the
Minister-in-charge.
24A. Omitted.
24-B. Notwithstanding anything contained in these rules, the powers which the State Government
may exercise under sections 6-C and 6-E of the Essential Commodities Act, 1955 (Central Act 10 of
1955) as amended by the Essential Commodities (Special Provisions) Act, 1981 (Central Act 18 of
1981) for passing orders on the appeals connected with all control orders made and to be made in
future under section 3 of the said Act shall be exercised by the Secretary or the Additional
Secretary to Government, Food Department, as the case may be. All cases relating to such exercise
of powers of the State Government under the said sections 6-C and 6-E need not be submitted to the
Minister-in-charge.
25. Before a case is submitted by a Secretary or other Officer to a Minister for orders, a note for
circulation shall be prepared summarising the salient facts and setting out at the end the point or
points for orders. Where other departments have been consulted and officers other than the
Secretary of those departments have expressed different views, the originating department shall
obtain the approval of its Secretary and send the case to the Secretaries of those departments whose
officers gave views different from the originating department. If the views of the Secretaries also
differ, then the views of those Secretaries shall be reproduced verbatim in the note for circulation
before indicating the point or points for orders:
Provided that where the Chief Secretary or the Second Secretary or the Secretary of Finance
Department or the Secretary of Law Department has expressed opinions on the case under
consideration which are contrary to or different from the views expressed by the Secretary of the
department to which the case belongs and the latter still adheres to his views, he can after indicating
the different views verbatim, comment upon these views and also add any further note expressing his
own views with justifiable reasons and solicit orders routing the case through the Second Secretary or
the Chief Secretary for approval of his own opinion by the Minister or the Chief Minister, as the case
may be.
Provided further that in cases where contrary or different views are expressed by the Vigilance
Commissioner all such cases shall be routed through the Chief Secretary to the Minister concerned
and the Chief Minister, following the above procedure.
26.(1) Whenever, in a case not required to be submitted to the Chief Minister, the views of a
Minister are not accepted by any other Minister, the case shall be put up for perusal by the Minister
whose views are not accepted. If the Minister whose views are not accepted, still desires to reiterate
his views, he shall direct that the case be submitted to the Chief Minister for orders through the
Minister who has not accepted his views so that such Minister may have a fair chance to present his
view point before arriving at a decision. After issue of such orders of the Chief Minister, the case shall
be put up for perusal by the Minister whose views are overruled or not accepted by the Chief Minister.
(2) Whenever the views of a Minister are overruled or not accepted by the Chief Minister, in a
case not falling under sub-rule (1), after issue of such orders of the Chief Minister, the case shall be
put up for perusal by the Minister whose views are overruled or not accepted by the Chief Minister.
(3) The Minister whose views are overruled or not accepted by the Chief Minister and to whom the
case is put up for perusal as provided in sub-rule (2), may if he considers necessary, take up the
matter with the Chief Minister again to get revised orders.
(4) Before getting such revised orders under sub-rule (3), the Minister whose views are overruled
or not accepted by the Chief Minister shall direct that the case be submitted to the Chief Minister
through the Minister or Ministers who differed from him so that all concerned may have a fair chance
to present their respective view points before the original decision is sought to be revised.
27. As soon as possible after a week is over, the Secretary shall submit to all Ministers a
statement showing particulars of cases other than routine cases, disposed of in the department by the
Minister and the Secretary, respectively, during the week distinguishing those disposed of after
discussion at meetings of the Council. A copy of the said statement shall be simultaneously
submitted also to the Governor:
28. When the subject of a case concerns more than one department, no order shall be issued nor
shall the case be laid before the Council until it has been considered by all the departments
concerned, unless the case is one of extreme urgency.
Provided that cases of Housing Department relating to schemes of Housing, Slum Clearance and
Land Acquisition and Development implemented by the Tamil Nadu Housing Board or the Tamil Nadu
Slum Clearance Board may be disposed of without consulting the Rural Development and Local
Administration Department, except where the Tamil Nadu Housing Board and the Tamil Nadu Slum
Clearance Board have not consulted the local body concerned, or the Director of Town and Country
Planning or the Madras Metropolitan Development Authority, as the case may be.
Explanation I- The requirements of this rule shall not be deemed to have been satisfied merely by
reason of the fact that a case was seen by a particular department at a certain stage, if, after the date
of such reference, the case has undergone material modifications as a result of further discussion
and noting and the case as finally proposed to be circulated differs materially from the case as
originally referred to the other department.
Explanation II - Every case in which a decision, if taken in one department, is likely to affect the
transaction of business, allotted to another department, it shall be deemed to be a case, the subject of
which, concerns more than one department.
29. Omitted.
30. If the departments concerned are not in agreement regarding the case dealt with under rule
28, the Minister in charge of the department may, if he wishes to proceed with the case, direct that the
case be circulated to all Ministers or submitted to the Chief Minister for orders for laying the case
before the Council.
Explanation - (1) When a case is circulated under this rule, the order of circulation shall be the
same as that prescribed in rule 15 (2).
31.(1) A Secretary may ask to see the papers in any department if such papers are required for the
disposal of a case in his department.
(2) Such request shall be dealt with under the general or special orders of the Minister in charge.
(3) A Minister may send for any paper from any department for his information provided that, if he
is of opinion that any further action should be taken on them he shall communicate his views to the
Minister in charge of the department concerned and, in case of disagreement, may submit the case
to the Chief Minister with a request that the matter be laid before the Council. No further notes shall
be recorded in the case before the papers are so laid before the Council:
Provided that if the paper is of a secret nature, it shall be sent to the Minister only under the orders
of the Minister in charge of the department to which it belongs:
Provided further that no paper under disposal shall be sent to any Minister until it has been seen
by the Minister in charge of the department to which it belongs.
(4)(a) The Chief Secretary may, on the orders of the Chief Minister or of any Minister or of his
own motion, call for papers relating to any case in any department and any such request by him shall
be complied with by the Secretary of the department concerned.
(b) The Chief Secretary may, after examination of the case, submit it for the orders of the Minister
in charge or of the Chief Minister through the Minister in charge.
32. If any question arises as to the department of which a case properly belongs, the matter shall
be referred for the decision of the Chief Secretary who will, if necessary obtain the orders of the Chief
Minister.
33.(1) The Governor, the Chief Minister, the Minister in charge and the Chief Secretary should be
apprised immediately of all important developments in his department that come to the notice of any
Secretary to Government. To ensure this, copies of communications of the nature mentioned below
should be prepared and submitted separately direct to each of them:-
(i) D.O. letters received from the Prime Minister and other Ministers of the Union.
(ii) D.O. letters and communications received from the Government of India at the Official level.
Explanation - In regard to items (i) and (ii) above, copies of communications of a routine or
unimportant nature need not be submitted.
(iii) Report from the Collectors and other officers relating to occurrences of the nature mentioned
below:
(c) Calamities such as floods or earthquakes, which cause serious damage to life or property;
(2) The preliminary circulation of separate advance copies mentioned above should not be allowed
to delay action in the Secretariat Department concerned, on the original papers.
34. Any matter likely to bring the State Government into controversy with the Government of India
or with any other State Government shall, as soon as the possibility of such a controversy is foreseen,
be brought to the notice of the Governor and the Chief Minister and the Minister-in-charge.
35.(1)(a) The following classes of cases shall be submitted to the Chief Minister before the issue of
orders:
(i) Proposals for the grant of pardon in pursuance of Article 161 of the Constitution.
(ii) Proposals to suspend, remit or commute sentences passed on convicted persons in important
cases.
(iii) Cases relating to petitions for mercy from or on behalf of persons sentenced to death.
(iv) Cases raising questions of policy and cases of administrative importance not already covered
by the Second schedule.
(v) Cases which affect or are likely to affect the peace and tranquility of the State or any part
thereof.
(vi) Cases involving questions of policy which affect or are likely to affect the interests of any
minority community, Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Backward classes.
(vii) Cases which affect the relations of the State Government with the Government of India, any
other State Government, the Supreme Court or the High Court.
(viii) Constitution of an Advisory Board under Article 22(4)(a) for the detention of persons without
trail.
(ix) Proposals for the dismissal, removal or compulsory retirement of any gazetted officer.
(x) Proposals for the appointment, posting and promotion of the following officers:-
(a) Secretaries, Additional Secretaries, Joint Secretaries and Deputy Secretaries to Government.
(e) Collectors.
(i) Advocate-General (including proposals for determining or varying the remuneration payable to
him and cases dealing with his resignation and his removal).
(j) District Judges including Additional District Judges, Joint District Judges, Assistant District
Judges, Chief Judge, Court of Small Causes, Principal Judge, City Civil Court, Additional Judges, City
Civil Court, Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Administrator-General and Official Trustee, Sessions
Judges, Additional Sessions Judges and Assistant Sessions Judges.
Explanation - In respect of officers mentioned in item (j), the expression "appointment, posting and
promotion" shall mean the first appointment, posting and promotion and the word "posting" shall not
include "transfer".
(l) Authorities appointed for preparation of electoral rolls for the State Legislature.
(2) Indian Police Service, including post of Commandants, Malabar Special Police, Deputy
Commandant and Assistant Commandants, Malabar Special Police.
(3) Government Pleaders and Public Prosecutors both in the City and in the Mufassal).
(6) Chairman, Members and Secretary of the Sales Tax Appellate Tribunal.
(9) Commissioners, Chairman and Managing Directors of all Corporations, Statutory bodies and
Government Undertakings under the control of the Government of Tamil Nadu.
(xi) Lists of approved candidates for appointment to State Services (including post which are
excluded from the purview of Statutory Rules).
(xii) All postings, transfers or grade promotions which are not strictly in accordance with seniority.
(xiii) Transfers, and postings in the following services and posts to the extent, if any, specified:-
Director of Agriculture.
(5) Tamil Nadu Commercial Taxes Service - Deputy Commissioners of Commercial Taxes.
(6) Tamil Nadu Electrical Inspectorate Service Chief Electrical Inspector to Government and Senior
Electrical Inspector.
(7) Tamil Nadu Engineering Service (Chief Engineers, Superintending Engineers and Executive
Engineers).
(8) Tamil Nadu Excise Service (Deputy Commissioners of Excise and Assistant Commissioners of
Excise including the Assistant Secretary to the Commissioner).
Personal Assistant to the Director of Town and Country Planning or the Joint Director of Town and
Country Planning.
Superintendent of the Government Museum and Associate Librarian of the Connemara Public
Library.
Director of Translations.
(10) Tamil Nadu Highways Engineering Service - Chief Engineer, Superintending Engineers and
Divisional Engineers.
Government Analyst.
(14) Tamil Nadu Port Service - (Port Officers and the State Port Officer and Agent for Government
Consignments).
(15) Tamil Nadu Public Health Service - (Director, Deputy Director and Assistant Directors of
Public Health).
(17) Tamil Nadu Stationery and Printing Service - Director of Stationery and Printing.
(19) Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly Secretariat Service and Legislative Council Secretariat
Service:-
(xiv) Proposals to lend the services of any officer other than a member of a Subordinate Service to
the Government of India or to any State Government or on Foreign Service.
(xv) Proposals to nominate Members of the Legislative Council under Article 171(3)(e).
(xvi) Proposals for the provision of representation to the Anglo-Indian Community (Article 333)
(xvii) Any communication from the Election Commission especially with reference to its
requirements as to staffs and action proposed to be taken thereon.
(xviii) Any proposal for the institution of a prosecution by Government against the advice tendered
by the Law Department.
(xix) Any departure from these rules which comes to the notice of the Chief Secretary or the
Secretary to Government of any department.
(xxi) Proposed rules affecting the pay, allowances or pensions payable to or in respect of officers
appointed by the former Secretary of State for India.
(xxii) Cases pertaining to the Governor's personal establishment and Government House matters.
(xxiii) Proposals for the appointment of Chairman and Members of the State Public Service
Commission, cases dealing with resignation of the Chairman or any such Member and proposals for
the appointment of the Secretary, ^Joint Secretary, Deputy Secretary and Under Secretary of the
State Public Service Commission.
(xxiv) Cases relating to the application of Acts of Parliament or of the State Legislature to the
Scheduled Areas and the making of regulations for the peace and good Government of those areas.
(xxv) All important cases relating to Defence, External Affairs or Ecclesistical Affairs.
(xxvi) All proposals involving any important change in the strength or distribution of any police
force, whether civil or military.
(xxvii) All proposals for the making or amendment of any rules, regulations or orders relating to any
police force, whether civil or military.
(xxviii) All proposals for imposing on the police forces duties other than those which they are
required to perform under the Acts relating to those forces and the rules framed thereunder.
(xxix) All proposals for a substantial increase or diminution of the powers of heads of departments.
(xxx) All proposals materially affecting the conditions of service or the normal promotion of any
Government servant.
(xxxi) All cases in which the conduct of officers appointed by the former Secretary of State for
India, listed post holders, officers, of the Indian Administrative Service and Indian Police and State
Service is involved and which the Secretary to Government in the department concerned considers to
be of sufficient importance to be submitted to the Chief Minister.
(xxxii) All cases in which it is proposed to communicate to an Officer appointed by the former
Secretary of State for India or a listed post holder or an officer of the Indian Administrative Service or
Indian Police or a State Service, adverse remarks on him in the periodical confidential report.
(xxxiii) All proposals for the reservation of appointments and posts for the Scheduled Castes,
Scheduled Tribes and Backward Classes.
(xxxiv) All cases in which it is proposed to deviate from the advice tendered by the State Public
Service Commission.
(xxxv) Any proposal for abolition of a post required to be held by a member of a State Service.
(xxxvi) Cases relating to payment out of the Consolidated Fund of State any damages or costs
incurred by public servants in connection with civil suits instituted against them in respect of acts
purported to have been done by them in their official capacity.
(xxxvii) All important cases relating to the development of irrigation and supply of electricity in the
State.
(xxxviii) All cases in which Land Acquisition proceedings are proposed to be dropped.
(xxxix) All cases of withdrawal or dropping of police investigation for violation of control orders.
(xl) All cases relating to constitution of statutory and non-statutory committees by the Government
of Tamil Nadu or by the Government of India, and nomination and replacement of members thereto,
and cases relating to filling up of places by the Government of Tamil Nadu in Committees constituted
by the Government of India and any other connected matters.
(xlii) All cases relating to the issue of any notification under sub-section (2) of Section 15 or under
Section 16 of the Representation of the People Act, 1951 (Central Act XLIII of 1951) , summoning and
Prorogation of either House of Legislature,
and dissolution of the Legislative Assembly and disqualification of Members of the State ~Legislative
Assembly arising under Articles 191 and 192 or to recover or to waive the recovery of the penalty due
under Article 193"
(xliii) All cases relating to the issue of rules regulating the conditions of service of persons serving
in a civil capacity in connection with the affairs of the State and the relation of such rules in individual
cases.
Explanation - The following cases need not be submitted to the Chief Minister:-
(a) Cases in which the general principle and object of amendments have already been accepted by
the Chief Minister;
(b) Cases relating to amendments to existing rules which are of routine nature; and
(c) Cases involving relaxation of statutory rules if all the concerned departments agree.
(xlv) All cases relating to the deputation of officers for special study or training outside the State.
(xlvi) Cases relating to the presentation, to either House of the Legislature of the annual financial
statement or a statement relating to supplementary, additional or excess grants and Appropriation
Bills.
(xlvii) Cases relating to schemes of new expenditure which require reference to the Standing
Finance Committee and the Council -
(a) Schemes treated as "new services" - Subject to the monetary limits fixed by Finance
Department in consultation with the Public Accounts Committee from time to time.
(b) Schemes not treated as "new services" where the estimated cost does not exceed the
monetary limits fixed by Finance Department from time to time.
(xlviii) All cases which the Secretary concerned considers to be of major importance or which any
Minister may ask to have circulated to the Chief Minister.
(xlix) Deleted.
(l) Cases relating to the Constitution of Corporations, Municipalities, Panchayat Union Councils
and Panchayats.
(lii) Cases relating to the removal of Mayors of Corporations and Chairmen of Municipal Councils
and Panchayat Union Councils and Presidents of Panchayats.
(liii)(a) Cases relating to the deputation of officers to participate in conferences held in foreign
countries.
(b) Proposals for the appointment of Chairman, Members and the Secretary of the Tamil Nadu
Electricity Board.
(liv) Any other cases or class of cases which the Chief Minister specially directs to be submitted to
him.
35.(1)(b) Cases of routine nature or cases which the circulating officer does not consider to be of
sufficient importance need not be circulated to the Chief Minister.
(2) The following classes of cases shall be submitted by the Chief Minister to the Governor before
the issue of orders:-
(i)(a) Proposals for the grant of pardon in pursuance of Article 161 of the Constitution.
(b) Proposals to suspend, remit or commute sentences passed on convicted persons in important
cases.
(c) Cases relating to petitions for mercy from or on behalf of persons sentenced to death.
(iii) Cases which affect or are likely to affect the peace and tranquility of the State or any part
thereof.
(iv) Cases which affect or are likely to affect the interests of any minority community, Scheduled
Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Backward Classes.
(v) Cases which affect the relations of the State Government with the Government of India, any
other State Government, the Supreme Court or the High Court.
(vi) Cases pertaining to the Governor's personal establishment and Government House matters.
^^(vii) Proposals for the appointment of Chairman and Members of the State Public Service
Commission cases dealing with resignation of the Chairman or any such member.
** (viii) Proposals for dismissing, removing or compulsorily retiring any Gazetted Officer falling
under provisio (c) to article 311(2) of the Constitution of India.
(ix) Proposals for the appointment, posting and promotion of the following officers:-
*^(a) Omitted.
(b) Omitted.
(c) Omitted.
(d) District Judges including Additional District Judges, Joint District Judges, Assistant District
Judges, Chief Judge, Court of Small Causes, Principal Judge, City Civil Court, Additional Judges, City
Civil Court, Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Administrator-General and Official Trustee, Sessions
Judges, Additional Sessions Judges and Assistant Sessions Judges;
Explanation - In respect of officers mentioned in item (d), the expression "appointment, posting and
promotion" shall mean the first appointment posting and promotion and the word "posting" shall not
include "transfer".
(e) Omitted.
(f) Omitted.
(g) Omitted.
(h) Omitted.
(i) Advocate-General (including proposals for determining or varying the remuneration payable to
him) and cases dealing with his resignation and his removal. [Omitted in G.O.Ms.No.308, P&AR (A)
Deptt. dt. 14-8-96]
* (j) Chief Secretary to Government (not the postings of officers of the rank of Chief Secretary;
only the specific post of Chief Secretary to Government)
(k) Director General of Police (not the postings of officers of the rank of Director General of Police;
only the specific post of Director General of Police (Main)).
(x) Omitted.
(xi) All cases relating to the issue of any notification under sub-section (2) of Section 15 or
under section 16 of the Representation of the People Act, 1951 (Central Act XLIII of 1951),
summoning and prorogation of either House of the Legislature, dissolution of the Legislative
Assembly, disqualification of Members of the State Legislature arising under Article 192, proposals to
nominate Members of the Legislative Council under Article 171(3)(e) or proposals for the provision of
representation to the Anglo-Indian Community under Article 333.
(xii) Omitted.
(xiii) Omitted.
(xiv) Cases relating to the presentation to either House of the Legislature of the annual financial
statement or a statement relating to supplementary, additional or excess grants and Appropriation
Bills.
(xv) Any departure from these rules which comes to the notice of the Chief Secretary or the
Secretary of any Department.
(xvi) Such other cases of administrative importance as the Chief Minister might consider necessary
or as the Governor may wish to see.
(3) Cases relating to the appointment or resignation of the Chief Minister or any other Minister shall
be submitted to the Governor.
(4) Notwithstanding anything contained in these rule or any other rules, the Chief Minister may, by
means of Standing Orders, give such directions as he thinks fit, to restrict and regulate the submission
of any classes or cases to him or through
him to the Governor, as the case may be, Copies of such Standing Orders shall be sent to the
Governor.
36. Where in any case the Governor considers that any further action should be taken or that
action should be taken otherwise than in accordance with the orders passed by the Minister-in-
charge, the Governor may require the case to be laid before the Council for consideration, whereupon
the case shall be so laid:
Provided that the notes, minutes or comments of the Governor in any such case shall not be
brought on the Secretariat record unless the Governor so directs.
(a) cause to be furnished to the Governor such papers, records, or information relating to the
administration of the affairs of the State and proposals for legislation as the Governor may call for;
and
(b) if the Governor so requires, submit for the consideration of the Council any matter on which a
decision has been taken by a Minister but which has not been considered by the Council.
38. All important cases involving adoption of new principles, new schemes and proposals
suggesting deviation from existing rules and practice shall be circulated to the Ministers concerned by
the Secretaries of the respective departments only through the Chief Secretary to Government.
B. FINANCE DEPARTMENT
39. The Finance Department shall be consulted before the issue of orders upon all proposals
which affect the finances of the State and in particular -
(a) proposals to add any post to the Public Service or to vary the emoluments of any post;
(b) proposals to sanction an allowance or special or personal pay for any post or class of posts or
to any servant of the Government of the State;
(c) proposals involving abandonment of revenue or involving an expenditure for which no provision
has been made in the Appropriation Act.
Explanation - Proposals for the abolition of post shall be sent to Finance Department for
information after issue of orders.
40. The views of the Finance Department shall be brought to the permanent record of the
department to which the case belongs and shall form part of the case.
41. The Finance Department may by general or special order prescribe cases in which its assent
may be presumed to have been given.
42.(1) The Finance Minister may call for any papers in a case in which any of the matters referred
to in rule 10 or rule 39 is involved and the department to whom the request is addressed shall supply
the papers.
(2) On receipt of papers called for under sub-rule (1), the Finance Minister may request that the
papers with his note on them shall be submitted to the Council.
(3) The Finance Department may make rules to govern financial procedure in general in all
departments and to regulate the business of the Finance Department and the dealings of other
departments with the Finance Department.
C.LAW DEPARTMENT
43. Except as hereinafter provided the Law Department is not, in respect of legislation, an
originating or initiating department and its proper function is to put into technical shape the projects of
legislation of which the policy has been approved and every proposals to initiate legislation shall
be considered in, and if necessary transferred to the department to which the subject matter of the
legislation relates and the necessity for legislation and all matters of substance to be embodied in
the Bill shall be discussed and, subject to rule 8, settled in such department.
44. Proposals to initiate legislation shall be treated as a case and shall be submitted to the Chief
Minister through the Minister-in-charge of the Administrative Department and the Law Department:
Provided that the case shall not be so submitted until the department concerned has consulted the
Law Department as to -
(i) the need for the proposed legislation from a legal point of view;
(ii) the competence of the State Legislature to enact the measure proposed;
(iii) the requirements of the Constitution as to obtaining the previous sanction of the President or
recommendation of the Governor thereto;
(iv) the consistency of the proposed measure with the provisions of the Constitution, and in
particular those relating to the Fundamental Rights; and
45. If legislation is decided upon, the department shall draw up a memorandum on the proposal
indicating with sufficient precision the lines on which it has been decided to legislate and also a
statement of Objects and Reasons. If the legislation involves expenditure from the Consolidated Fund
of the State, a financial memorandum shall also be prepared in consultation with the Finance
Department.
The papers shall then be sent to the Law Department requesting it to draft the Bill accordingly.
Explanation - A separate memorandum need not be prepared in cases where a note for the
Cabinet or some other paper already in existence will serve the purpose of a memorandum.
46. The Law Department shall thereafter prepare a tentative draft Bill, scrutinize the statement of
Objects and Reasons and return the case to the department concerned.
47. The Administrative Department will obtain the opinions of such officers and bodies as it seems
necessary on the draft Bill and submit the opinion received with a copy of the tentative draft Bill to the
Minister-in-charge.
48.(1) If the tentative draft Bill is approved by the Minister-in-charge of the subject, it shall be
circulated to the Chief Minister through the Minister-in-charge of the Law Department.
(3) If a Bill which is proposed to be introduced in the Legislature attracts the provisions of clause
(2) of Article 31, clause (1) of Article 31-A or Article 31-C, of the Constitution or it is a Bill on Land
Reforms, the Administrative department principally concerned with the subject matter shall consult the
Ministry of Home Affairs of the Government of India before the introduction of the Bill in the
Legislature:
Provided that the procedure in sub-rule (3) need not be followed when the need for action is so
urgent that prior consultation is not possible. In such cases, Ministry of Home Affairs of the
Government of India shall be informed as soon as possible.
49.(1) If it is decided to proceed with the Bill, with or without amendments, the originating
department shall send the case to the Law Department requesting it to prepare a final draft of the Bill.
(2) If the legislation involves any delegation of legislative power, the originating department shall
prepare and append to the draft Bill a memorandum of delegated legislation explaining such
proposals and drawing attention to their scope and stating also whether they are of normal or
exceptional character.
50. The Law Department shall then finalise the draft Bill and scrutinise the draft memorandum of
delegated legislation and send the draft Bill to the originating department indicating at the same time
the sanctions or recommendations, if any, required for the Bill. If any provisions in the Bill
involving expenditure from the Consolidated Fund of the State are modified in the finalised draft, the
department shall send the finalised draft Bill to the Finance Department for revising, if necessary the
financial memorandum.
51.(a) Where the previous sanction of the President or the recommendation of the Governor is
necessary for a Bill, the originating department shall obtain it, and then forward a copy of the Bill
(together with the statement of Objects and Reasons and the Notes on Clauses if any) to the
Legislative Assembly Secretariat, as the case may be.
(b) The originating Department shall also prepare a notice of motion to introduce a Bill and shall,
after obtaining the signature of the Minister-in-charge, forward the notice to the Secretary to the
Chamber of the Legislature to which it is proposed to introduce the Bill. The department will be in
charge of the Bill in all its subsequent stages. The originating department, shall while giving notice of
motion to the Assembly Secretariat submit a copy of the Bill as finalised by the Law
Department to the Governor.
(c) The proviso to rule 130 of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly Rules and the proviso to rule
93 of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Council Rules provide for the publication of the Bill without the leave
of the House concerned.
(d) Ten copies of every Bill which falls within the concurrent Legislative field or seeks to amend a
law falling within the concurrent legislative field introduced in either Chamber of the Legislature or
published in the Gazette shall, immediately after such introduction or publication, as the case may be,
be forwarded by the Law Department to the Government of India, Ministry of Law.
52. Not withstanding anything contained in rule 43 measures designed solely to codify and
consolidate existing enactments and legislation of a formal character such as repealing and amending
Bills may be initiated in the Law Department.
Provided that the Law Department shall send a copy of the draft Bill to the department which is
concerned with the subject matter for consideration as an administrative measure and the department
to which it is sent shall forthwith make such enquiries as it thinks fit and shall send to the Law
Department its opinion thereon together with a copy of every communication received by them on the
subject.
53.(1) Whenever a private Member of the State Legislative Assembly gives notice of his intention
to move for leave to introduce a Bill the Office of the Legislative Assembly shall forthwith send two
copies of the Bill and the Statement of Objects and Reasons to the department principally concerned
with the subject matter of the Bill and another to the Law Department. The Administrative Department
shall submit one set of the papers to the Chief Minister for information.
(2) The Bill shall be dealt with as a case by the administrative department and then referred to the
Law Department for advice in its technical aspects, such as need for previous sanction of the
President or recommendation of the Governor and the competence of the State Legislature to enact
the measure.
(3) If any provisions of such Bill involve expenditure from the Consolidated Fund of the State, the
department shall, before it is circulated, prepare in consultation with the Finance Department the
financial memorandum in respect of the Bill.
54. The provisions of rule 53 shall apply as far as may be to amendments of substance
recommended by the Select Committee and also to all amendments notice of which is given by
Members of the State Legislature for being moved during the consideration of a Bill in that
Legislature.
55.(1) When a Bill has been passed by the Legislature it shall be examined by the Law Department
in consultation with the administrative department concerned and shall be forwarded to the Governor
with -
(a) a report of the Secretary of the department concerned as to the reasons, if any, why the
Governor's assent should not be given; and
(b) a report of the Law Secretary as to the reasons, if any, why the Governor's assent should not
be given for the Bill should not be reserved for the consideration of the President.
(2) Where the Governor directs that the Bill should be reserved for the consideration of the
President or returned to the Legislature with a message, necessary action in that behalf shall be taken
by the Law Department in consultation with the Administrative Department concerned.
(3) After obtaining the assent of the Governor or the President as the case may be, the Law
Department shall cause the Bill to be published in the Gazette as an Act of the Legislature.
56.(1) Subject to the provisions of sub-rules (2), (3) and (4), the provisions of rules 43 to 50 shall
apply mutatis mutandis to all proposals for the issue of an Ordinance under Article 213 of the
Constitution.
(2) After the Ordinance is approved by the Council or in circulation, the originating Department
shall forthwith send the case to the Law Department, which shall submit the Ordinance, through the
Minister-in-charge of Law and the Chief Minister, to the Governor for promulgation:
Provided that where previous instructions of the President under the proviso to clause (1) of
Article 213 of the Constitution are necessary for the promulgation of the Ordinance, the originating
department shall obtain the same before sending the case to the Law Department.
(3) After the promulgation of the Ordinance by the Governor, the Law Department shall cause it to
be published in the Gazette.
(4) After the publication of the Ordinance, the Law Department shall forward a copy of the same to
the Governor; and 350 copies to the Secretary, Legislative Assembly and 150 copies to the
Secretary, Legislative Council, for being laid before both the Houses of the Legislature as required
under clause (2) of Article 213 of the Constitution.
57. Whenever it is proposed in any department other than the Law Department -
(iii) to submit to the Central Government any draft statutory rule notification or order for issue by
them, the draft shall, unless it is of a routine nature or unless similar drafts have already been
accepted by the Law Department, be referred to that department for opinion and for revision where
necessary.
- (a) the construction of statutes, Acts, Regulations and Statutory Rules, Orders and Notifications;
(b) any general legal principles arising out of any case; and
(c) the institution or withdrawal of any prosecution at the instance of any Administrative
department, except in cases which are simple and clear and where no point of Law is involved.
Explanation - The Home Department shall, however, be consulted before issue of orders in all
cases of withdrawal of prosecution.
(2) Every such reference shall be accompanied by an accurate statement of the facts of the case
and the point or points on which the advice of the Law Department is desired.
59. In respect of cases referred to the Law Department under rule 57 and 58 the Administrative
Department shall take action in accordance with the legal advice of the Law Department. But the
Administrative department may refer a case to the Law Department for reconsideration of its opinion
in the light of the new points brought to notice.
60. Every Bill of the nature referred to in Article 199 of the Constitution shall -
(1) if the Bill relates to the subject dealt within the Finance Department, be submitted to the
Finance Minister and the Governor.
(2) in any other case, be sent by the Secretary of the Department concerned for the remarks of the
Finance Department. The Bill shall thereafter be submitted to the Finance Minister by the Department
concerned.
60(A). Proposals for making or amending of the rule under Article 234 and issue of Notification
under Article 237 shall be submitted to Chief Minister though Law Minister.
SECTION IV
SUPPLEMENTARY
61. The Secretary of the department concerned is in each case responsible for the proper
transaction of business and the careful observance of these rules and when he considers that there
has been any material departure from them, he shall personally bring the matter to the notice of the
Minister in charge and the Chief Secretary.
62. If any doubt arises as to the interpretation of these rules, it shall be referred to the Chief
Minister whose decision shall be final.
63. These rules may to such extent as may be necessary be supplemented by Instructions to be
issued by the Governor on the advice of the Chief Minister.
FIRST SCHEDULE
(See Rule 4)
DISTRIBUTION OF BUSINESS AMONG DEPARTMENTS OF THE SECRETARIAT
PUBLIC DEPARTMENT
State Subjects -
Objectionable Censorship.
Civil Representatives with the Army (other than Indian Civil Service Officers).
District Judges.
Ecclasiastical affairs.
Establishment.
Flags.
Governor's Household - Raj Bhavan Governor's Secretary's Office Personal Staff of Governor
Governor's Household Contracts Construction Furniture Maintenance and furnishing Medical
Sumptuary Tour Works
Holidays.
Human rights.
Legislative Bodies (other than Tamil Nadu) - Proceedings - Marking Subjects for perusal of
Ministers.
Legislative Council Secretariat and Legislative Assembly Secretariat (other than the subjects dealt
with in the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly Secretariat) namely:-
Miscellaneous papers.
Other Committees and Conferences not pertaining to any other departments of Secretariat.
Passage Rules.
Prisoners - State.
Public Order.
Secretariat.
Central Despatch Branch.
Library.
State Emblem.
State Functions.
State Gazetteers.
Tamil Nadu Public Property (Prevention of Damage and Loss) Act, 1992.
Concurrent Subjects -
Foreign Missions.
Newsprint Control.
Preventive Detention other than preventive detention under the Tamil Nadu Prevention of
Dangerous Activities of Bootleggers, Drug offenders, Goondas, Immoral Traffic Offenders and
Slumgrabbers, Ordinance,1982 for reasons connected with Defence, Foreign Affairs, Security of
State, Security of India, Maintenance of Public Order, Maintenance of Supplies and Services
executed to the community - Persons subjected to such detention. Removal from one State to
another State of Prisoners, accused persons and persons subjected to preventive detention for
reasons connected with the security of a State, the maintenance of Public Order or the
maintenance of supplies and services essential to the community.
Welfare of serving Personnel.
Union Subjects -
Acquisition of residential and nonresidential property of ex rules and chiefs of Indian States.
Aliens.
Army in India - Reserve of Officers. Ex-Army men. Movement of Troops. Naval, Military and Air
forces in India.
Census.
Ceremonials.
Defence of India.
Financial Assistant to Freedom Fighters (from Union Home Minister's Discretionary Grant)
Foreign diplomats.
Foreigners.
Independence Day.
Martyr's Day.
National Anthem.
Political charges.
Reforms.
Republic Day.
Reservists.
Telephone.
Territorial Army.
Territorial changes.
Uniform (Civil).
Union Public Services. All India Services, Union Public Service Commission.
State Subjects -
Amendments to the General Rules for the State and Subordinate Services.
Dress Regulations.
Establishment.
Fundamental Rules.
Inspection of the offices of the Heads of Department including all the branches of the Board
of Revenue and Departments of Secretariat - Excluding Law Department.
Management.
Man Power Planning, Training and Career Development for all Services in the State.
Office Procedure.
Petition Rules.
Reservation of appointments and posts for Backward Classes of citizens - General question.
Services under the control of the State Government Statutory Rules to regulate the method of
recruitment - Conditions of Service - Revision of and amendments to the following Statutory Rules:-
The Tamil Nadu Civil Services (Classification, Control and Appeal) Rules.
The Tamil Nadu Civil Services (War Service Personnel) Recruitment Rules.
The Tamil Nadu General Subordinate Services (as far as they relate to Record Clerks).
Concurrent Subjects -
NIL
Union Subjects -
NIL
State Subjects -
Bonded Labour.
Concurrent Subjects -
Union Subjects -
NIL
AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT
State Subjects -
Agricultural Marketing including the State Agricultural Marketing Board and the Tamil Nadu
Agricultural Produce Markets Act.
Agricultural Production.
Agricultural Statistics.
Agriculture including Agricultural Education Research and Engineering and Agricultural University.
Agro Engineering and Service Co-operative Societies at the Block and District and Apex level
including the Federation.
Botanical Survey.
Commercial Crops.
Cost of Living Index and Trade and Rainfall for purpose of State matters and of any of the matters
in the concurrent field.
Minor Irrigation.
Plant Protection.
Prevention of the extension from one unit to another of infectious and contagious diseases or
pests affecting plants.
Public Services - Statutory rules of the Services with which Agriculture Department is concerned.
Revision of and amendment to the rules.
Pulses.
Soil Conservation.
State Works and Buildings under the administrative control of this department.
Sugarcane (both Industrial and Production aspects), Research and Development and Road
Development Schemes.
Vegetables - Schemes.
Concurrent Subjects -
Statistics for the purpose of any of the matters in the concurrent field.
Union Subjects -
Acts and Rules and Legislation proposals relating to Animal Husbandry and Fisheries Department.
Fisheries Department.
Meat Corporation.
Prevention of the extension from one Unit to another of infectious and contagious disease or
pests affecting animals.
Public Services - Statutory rules of Services with which the Department is concerned - Revision
of and amendment to the Rules.
Sheep breeding.
State Works and building under the administrative control of the Department.
Veterinary Education and Research including Veterinary and Animal Sciences University.
Concurrent Subjects -
Union Subjects -
NIL
State subjects -
Concurrent Subjects -
Charities and Charitable institutions, Charitable and religious endlowments. Religious institutions
of Muslims and Wakf Act, 1995.
Union Subjects -
NIL
State Subjects -
Capitation Taxes.
Commercial Taxes.
Court of wards subject to the provisions of the entry 34 in the Union List, encumbered and
attached estates.
Entertainments Tax.
Public Service - Statutory rules of the service with which the department is concerned - Revision of
and amendment to those rules.
Registration.
State Works and buildings under the administrative control of the Commercial Taxes and
Registration Department.
Taxes on advertisements in cinema theatres, Taxes on the entry of goods into a local area for
consumption use or sale therein.
Concurrent Subjects -
Stamp duties other than duties of fees collected by means of Judicial Stamps but not including
rates of stamp duty.
Union Subjects -
Stamp duty - Rate of, in respect of bills of exchange, cheques, promissory notes, bills of
lading, letters of credit - Survey of India.
State Subjects -
Consumer Cooperatives.
Food Policy.
Minor Irrigation Schemes financed by National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development and
World Bank.
Millets.
Concurrent Subjects -
Sugar, Gur, Khandasari, Wheat, Wheat Products, Kerosene, Pulses, Tapioca, Milo, Potato and
Infant and Invalid food.
Tamil Nadu Ware Housing Act 1951 and Tamil Nadu Ware Housing Rules, 1953.
The Roller Mills Wheat Products (Ex- Mill) Prices Control Order, 1979.
The Tamil Nadu Essential Commodities (Display of Stocks and Prices and Maintenance of
Accounts) Order, 1977.
The Tamil Nadu Scheduled Commodities (Regulation of Distribution by Card System Order,
1974).
Tamil Nadu Paddy and Rice (Declaration and Requisitioning of stocks) Order, 1967.
The Tamil Nadu Paddy and Rice (Maximum Price) Order, 1964.
Quality Control.
Vegetable Oils
Union Subjects -
Prevention of Black Marketing and Maintenances of Supplies of Essential Commodities Act, 1980.
Pulses, Edible Oil seeds and Edible Oils (Storage Control) Order, 1977.
Levy Sugar Prices Equilisation Fund Act, 1977 and the Rules framed thereunder.
Industries (Development and Regulation) Act, 1951, and the Registration and Licensing of
Industrial Undertaking Order, 1952 so far as it relates to Wheat Roller, Flour Mills and Maize Mills.
The Wheat Roller Flour Mills (Licensing and Control) Order, 1957.
The Pulses, Edible Oil Seeds and Edible Oils (Storage Control) Order, 1977.
State Subjects -
Master Plan for integrated Development of Wild Life Sancturies in the State of Karnataka, Kerala
and Tamil Nadu.
Public Services - Statutory rules of the Services with which the Department is concerned -
Revision of and amendments to the rules.
State Works and Buildings under the administrative control of the Department.
Acts and Rules and Legislation Proposals relating to the Forest Department.
Forests.
Union Subjects -
NIL
FINANCE DEPARTMENT
State Subjects -
Commercial Accounts.
Cooperative Audit.
Economics in Expenditure.
Financial Rules.
Governor's Address.
Liaison with National Bank for Agricultural and Rural Development, Reserve Bank of India,
Industrial Credit Investment Corporation of India, Industrial Finance Corporation of India, Industrial
Development Bank of India and other National level financial Institutions in the Agricultural and
Industrial Sectors.
Refinance Corporation, the Integrated Rural Development Programme and the National Bank for
Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD).
Opening of New Bank Branches, State Level Coordination Committee Meetings, District
Consultative Committee meetings organised by lead Banks, Empowered Committee meetings,
State Level Bankers Committee, Regional Rural Bank meetings, Task Force meetings.
Pensioners Grievances
Public Services - Statutory Rules of the Services with which the department is concerned -
Revision of and amendment to those rules.
Public Debt of the State (including borrowings from the Government of India).
Public Services - Statutory Rules to regulate pay (including revised scales of pay) and
allowances - Amendments to the Pay Schedule in the Appendix to the Tamil Nadu Services Manual.
Explanation:-
Rules regarding pay which form an integral part of the Statutory Rules relating to a service
shall be dealt with by the departments of the Secretariat concerned with the particular service or
services.
Reappropriations.
Pay Commission.
State Pensions, namely, pensions payable by the State or out of the consolidated fund of the
State - Statutory Rules governing such pensions and provident Fund (excluding Indian Civil Service
Annuities, Indian Civil Service Provident Fund and Indian Civil Service Family Pension Fund.
Treasuries.
Treasury Rules.
Union Taxes and duties in which the States are interested such as Income-Tax, Union
Excises and others.
Concurrent Subjects -
Economics.
Union Subjects -
Corporation Tax.
Foreign Exchange.
Union Pension (i.e.Pension payable by Government of India or out of the consolidated Fund of
India).
State Subjects -
Handloom Industry.
Handicrafts.
Public Services - Statutory Rules of the services with which the department is concerned -
Revision of and amendments to these rules.
Textiles.
Concurrent Subjects -
Union Subjects -
NIL.
State Subjects -
Administration of Public Health and Medical Relief in the State and appeals from Public Health
and Medical Relief staff in the Corporation of Madras, Madurai and Coimbatore and local bodies
excluding those from Public Health staff employed in the maternity and Child Welfare Centres in
Panchayat Unions and Public Health staff employed in Town Panchayats and Panchayat Township.
Appeals from Public Health staff employed in Municipal Councils and local bodies excluding
those from Public Health staff employed in Maternity and Child Welfare Centres in Panchayat Unions
and Public Health staff employed in Town Panchayats and Panchayat Townships.
Family Welfare.
Mortuaries.
Public Services - Statutory rules of the services, with which the department is concerned - Revision
of and amendments to those rules.
Siddha including the Tamil Nadu Medicinal Plant and Herbal Medicine Corporation - Ayurveda,
Unani, Naturopathy, Yoga and Homeopathy
Concurrent subjects -
Adulteration of foodstuffs.
Drugs and poisons subject to the provisions of entry 59 of list I with respect to opium (Drugs
Control Act)
Lunacy and mental deficiency including places for the reception or treatment of lunatics and mental
deficients.
Prevention of the extension from one State to another of infectious or contagious diseases or pests
affecting men.
Social Insurance (Medical facilities under the Employees' State Insurance Act, 1948).
Union Subjects -
Port quarantine including hospitals connected therewith, seamen's and Marine hospitals.
Union Agencies and Institutes for research for professional or technical training, or for the
promotion of special studies.
State Subjects -
Education.-
Public Services - Statutory Rules of Services with which this Department is concerned. Revision of
and amendments to those rules.
Technical Education -
Engineering Colleges.
Polytechnics.
Universities -
Government Colleges.
Training Colleges.
Concurrent Subjects:-
Union Subjects:-
Union Agencies and Institute for Research for Professional or Technical Training or for the
promotion of special studies.
HIGHWAYS DEPARTMENT
State Subjects:
Bridges and Roads on Canal Banks and tank bunds rope way and others.
Communications, namely, roads, bridges and other means of communication excepting Highways
declared by or under law made by Parliament to be National Highways.
Ferries, Inland Waterways and traffic theron, as regards all types of boats or vessels either
mechanicaly propelled or by manual dovice except in respect of waterways declared by Parliament by
law to be National Waterways, Liveries and Clothing.
Public Services - Statutory Rules of the Service with which this Department is concerned -
Revision of and amendments to these rules.
Shipping Corporations.
Taxes on boats.
Works and Buildings under the administrative control of the Highways and National Highways
departments. Works and buildings under the administrative control of the Tamil Nadu Maritime Board.
Concurrent Subjects:-
Forts other than those declared by or under law made by Parliament or existing law to be major
ports.
Shipping and navigation on inland waterways as regards mechanically propelled vessels, and the
rule of the road on such waterways and the carriage of passengers and good on inland waterways
except in regard to these waterways declared by Parliament by law to be National Waterways.
Union Subjects:-
Light Houses including light ships, beacons and other provision for the safety of shipping and air
craft.
Major ports.
Maritime Shipping and navigation including shipping and navigation on tidal waters.
National Highways.
Provision of education and training for the mercantile marine and regulation of such education and
training provided by State and other agencies.
HOME DEPARTMENT
State Subjects -
Administration of Justice, Constitution and Organisation of all Courts except the Supreme Court
and the High Court; Officers and servants of the High Court; Fees taken in all Courts except the
Supreme Court.
Sanction of petrol charges to the staff Car of the High Court Judges.
Borstal Institutions.
Coroners.
Criminal Appeals.
Jurisdiction and powers of all Courts except the Supreme Court with reference to any of the
matters in the State list.
Magistrates.
Prisoners.
Public Services - Statutory Rules of the Services with which Home Department is concerned -
Revision of and amendments to those rules.
Theatres excluding Tamil Nadu Theatre Corporation Limited; Dramatic Performances and
Cinemas except sanctioning of films for exhibition.
Concurrent Subjects -
Criminal Law including all matters included in the Indian Penal Code on
the date of commencement of the Constitution.
Habitual offenders.
Jurisdiction and powers of all Courts except the Supreme Court with respect to any of the matter in
the concurrent list.
Prisoners and accused persons - Removal from one State to another State.
Union Subjects -
Citizenship.
Constitution and Organisation of the High Courts except provisions as to officers and servants of
the High Courts.
Control of entry into India from West Pakistan and Permit System Rule.
Extension of Jurisdiction of a High Court having its principal seat in any State to and exclusion of
the Jurisdiction of any such High Court from any area outside that State.
Extradition.
Indians Overseas.
Inter-State migration.
Jurisdiction and powers of all courts except the Supreme Court with respect to any of the matters
in the Union list.
Petroleum and petroleum products and other liquids and substances declared by Parliament to be
dangerously inflammable.
Pilgrimages to places beyond India including Hedijez.
Police - Extension of the powers and jurisdiction of members of a police force belonging to any
State to any area outside the State but not so far as to enable the Police of one State to exercise
power and jurisdiction in any area outside that State without the consent of the Government of the
State in which such area is situated. Extension of powers and Jurisdiction of members of a police
force belonging to any State to railway areas outside the State.
State Subjects -
Tamil Nadu Buildings (Lease and Rent Control) Act,1960 - Administration of.
Co-operative Housing Societies and Tamil Nadu Central Housing Mortgage Societies.
Housing Scheme including construction of quarters for Government servants under Tamil Nadu
Government Servants Rental Housing Schemes.
Tamil Nadu Town and Country Planning Act, 1971 and the rules framed there under.
Concurrent Subjects -
Central Scheme for the environmental improvement of slums in the city of Madras.
Union Subjects -
NIL
INDUSTRIES DEPARTMENT
State Subjects -
Commissioner of Sugar
Industries Commissioner and Director of Industries and Commerce only in respect of the
following:-
i) Release to Public Sector Corporations coming under the control of Industries Department and
preparation of accounts relating to budgetary allocations and release;
ii) Recommendations for licences in respect of Major and Medium Industries;
iii) Monitoring Industrial Enterpreneur Memorandum (Issued for delicensed categories) in respect
of Major and Medium Industries;
iv) Recommendations in respect of Major and Medium Industries in respect of Statutory matters
like exemption under Urban Land Ceiling Act, etc;
v) Other miscellaneous work where recommendations/views of the Director are required in respect
of Major and Medium Industries.
Incorporation, regulation and winding up of Corporations other than those specified under "Union
subjects", unincorporated trading, literacy, scientific, religious and other Societies and Associations.
Intoxicating liquors, that is to say the production, manufacture, possession, transport, purchase
and sale of intoxicating liquors for Industrial purposes.
Public Services - Statutory Rules of the Service with which the department is concerned - Revision
of and amendments to those rules.
Purchase of materials, stores, machinery or other goods mentioned in Appendix 5 to the Tamil
Nadu Financial Code, Volume II required for the State-Matters of Policy - regarding.
State works and Buildings under the administrative control of this department.
Contracts, including partnership, agency, contracts of carriages and other special forms of contract
but not including contractgs relating to agricultural land.
Geological Survey.
Union Subjects:-
Development of Industries where development under Union Control is declared by Union Law to
be expedient in the Public interest.
Incorporation, regulation and winding up of Trading Corporations including Banking, Insurance and
Financial Corporation but not including Co-operative Societies.
Mines and oil fields and mineral development - Regulation to the extent to which such regulations
and development under Union control is declared by the Union Law to be expedient in the Public
interest and regulation of Labour and safety in mines and oil fields.
Salt -
(a) Maintenance, supply and distribution of salt by Union Agencies regulations and control of
manufacture, supply and distribution of salt by other agencies.
Sugar Industry.
Tariffs.
State Subjects -
Children's Theatres.
Government Presses.
Information, Publicity and Press Communique, advertisements.
State Celebrations.
Tourism.
Union Subjects -
Copy-right.
State Subjects -
All Administrative and Technical Matters relating to SECNET, Internet and E-Mail Services.
Computer Training.
Data Warehousing.
Public Services - Statutory Rules of the Services with which the Department is concerned -
Revision and amendments to those rules.
Concurrent Subjects -
NIL
Union Subjects -
NIL
State Subjects -
Public Services - Statutory Rules of the Services with which the Department is concerned -
Revision of and amendment to those rules.
Concurrent Subjects -
Agricultural Labour.
Factories.
Welfare of Labour including conditions of work, employers liability, invalidity and old age pensions
and maternity benefits, bonus.
Wage Boards.
Employment and Unemployment.
The Working Journalists and other News paper Employees (Conditions of service and
miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1955.
The Tamil Nadu Industrial Establishments (National and Festival Holidays) Act, 1958.
Union Subjects -
LAW DEPARTMENT
State Subjects -
Acts.
Advising Government in matters of litigation, appeals etc. on legal questions which are not of
sufficient importance to necessitate a reference to the Advocate-General.
Civil Law.
Civil Procedure including all matters included in the Code of Civil Procedure at the commencement
of the Constitution.
Escheats.
Generally to assist other departments in all matters of legal nature that may be referred to it.
Law Colleges.
Legislature - Scrutiny of Rules of procedure and Standing Orders and Notifications and opinion
on matters referred to by the Legislative Assembly Secretariat.
Concurrent Subjects -
Adoption.
Arbitration.
Domicile.
Limitation Act.
Trusts and Trustees (excluding the Administrator-General's Act, 1913 and the Official Trustees
Act,1913).
Union Subjects -
NIL
State Subjects -
Appeals from employees of Town Panchayats and Public Health Staff (Non-provincialised)
employed in Town Panchayat.
Appointment and service matters relating to teachers and non-teaching staff working in the
Education branch (e.g.) Educational Officer and Supervisor) of Municipalities, Town Panchayats and
Municipal Corporations.
Establishment matter relating to Public Health staff (non- provincialised) employed in Town
Panchayats.
Communications that is to say, roads and bridges vesting in Municipalities Townships and and
Municipal Corporations.
Corporation of Madras, Madurai and Coimbatore. Elections relating to Municipal Corporations and
Municipalities.
Fees (Licence fees levied by Municipalities, Town Panchayats, and Municipal Corporations in
respect of Public Health matters).
Installation and Maintenance of Statues by any Municipality, Town Panchayat and Municipal
Corporation or individual (not by Government).
Local Boards - General Administration and all matters relating to them not specifically assigned to
other Departments.
Markets.
Municipalities, Town Panchayats and Town Panchayats Councils Constitution, abolition and
dissolution and General Administration and all other matter relating to them not specifically assigned
to other departments
Public Services - Statutory Rules of the services with which this department is concerned -
Revision and amendments to those rules.
State Works and Buildings under the administrative control of this department.
Streets - Change of names of streets received from the Municipalities, Town Panchayats and
Municipal Corporations - Approval of Government.
Taxes on animals.
Tolls (including tolls on vehicles and animals entering a notified festival area of Municipalities,
Town Panchayats, and Municipal Corporations).
Zoological gardens.
Concurrent Subjects -
Fees (License fees levied by Municipalities, Town Panchayats and Municipal Corporations in
respect of Public Health matters).
Pilgrim Tax.
Union Subjects -
NIL.
State Subjects -
Five-Years Plan.
Statistics.
Concurrent Subjects -
Social Planning.
Union Subjects -
Planning Commission including all general questions relating to Planning and General Co-
ordination of Planning Works.
State Subjects -
Duties of excise on the following goods manufactured or produced in the State and countervailing
duties at the same or lower rates on similar goods manufactured or produced elsewhere in India:-
(b) Opium, Indian hemp and other narcotic drugs and narcotics; but not including medicinal and
toilet preparations containing alcohol or any substance included in the item. Intoxicating liquors, that
is to say, the production, manufacture, possession, transport, purchase and sale of intoxicating
liquors.
Excise duties on tobacco and other goods manufactured or produce in India except those assigned
to those State.
Concurrent Subjects -
Drugs and narcotics, subject to the provisions of the entry in the Union List in respect of opium.
Preventive Detention under the Tamil Nadu Prevention of Dangerous Activities of Boot-leggers,
Drug-offenders, Goondas, Immoral Traffic Offenders and Slum-grabbers Ordinance, 1982 - Persons
subjected to such detention.
Union Subjects -
Cess on Beedi.
Duties of excise on Medicinal and toilet preparations containing alcohol or opium, Indian hemp and
other narcotic drugs and narcotics.
Molasses.
PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT
State Subjects -
Irrigation other than Minor irrigation works but including Special Minor Irrigation Works and
desilting-cum-reclamation works.
Isolated tombs of European Government servants and their families including isolated tombs of
historical or archeological interest and of British soldiers, non-commissioned officers and their
families.
Public Services - Statutory Rules of the Services with which the department is concerned -
Revision of and amendments to those rules.
River - Conservancy.
Television studies and Tower relating to the Civil Works and Technological aspects of revolving
Television Tower.
Water Power except in regard to regulation and development of inter-State rivers and river
valleys to the extent to which such regulation and development under the control of the Union is
declared by Parliament by law to be expedient in the
Public Interest.
Works and Buildings under the administrative control of the Public Works Dept.
Allotment of Private Official residence to High Court Judges by taking on lease of the private
buildings, payment of rent, supply of furniture and furnishing to such private official residence,
sanction of maintenance charges, provision of amenities like refrigerator, colour television, heater
etc.
Concurrent Subjects -
Boilers.
Electricity.
Union Subjects -
European cemeteries.
Regulation and development of inter-State rivers and river valleys to the extent to which such
regulation and development under the control of the Union is declared by Parliament by law to be
expedient in the Public interest.
REVENUE DEPARTMENT
State Subjects -
Administration of the Tamil Nadu Occupants of Kudiyiruppu (Confirment of Ownership) Act, 1971
and the rules framed thereunder.
Agricultural Census.
Alienation of lands under Board's Standing Order 24 to Local Bodies, Private Institutions and
individuals for public purposes.
Appeals under the Tamil Nadu Land Encroachment Act, 1905 and other encroachment cases.
Debtors Protection Act, Debt Conciliation Act and Relief of Agricultural Indebtedness.
Irrigation.
Jamabandhi.
Jurisdiction and change of names of districts, divisions, taluks, subtaluks and villages.
Land leases.
Loans and advances under the Land Improvement and Agricultural Loans Act.
Rural Indebtedness.
Sanction of prosecution of Government servants.
Sanction of Staff for general increase of work relating to implementation of land Ceiling Acts.
Settlement.
Tamil Nadu Agricultural Income-Tax Act, 1955 and all connected matters.
Tamil Nadu Urban Land Tax Act, 1966 and all connected matters.
Transfer of lands from one head to another head and from one department to another of the State
Government.
Usurious Loans
Village Officers.
Concurrent Subjects -
Union Subjects -
State Subjects -
Appeals from employees of Panchayat Unions, and Public Health staff (non-provincialised)
employed in Maternity and Child Welfare Centres in Panchayat Unions.
Community Development.
District Development Councils Act, 1959 - Election relating to Panchayat Unions and Panchayats.
Installation and Maintenance of Statues by Village Panchayats, and Panchayat Unions and or
individual (not by Government).
Development Works in Village Panchayats and Panchayat Unions under Five-Year Plans.
National Programme or non-student Youth Rural Man Power Scheme Yuvak Mandales - Review of
Plan Scheme.
Panchayats and Panchayat Union Council Constitution abolition and dissolution and general
administration and all matters relating to them not specifically assigned to other departments.
Panchayat Development - All matters relating to it not specifically assigned to other departments.
Periyar Ninaivu Samathuvapuram Scheme including maintenance of Public Propertieis like roads,
water supply etc., of Samathuvapuram Village.
Public Services - Statutory Rules of the services with which this department is concerned -
Revision and amendments to those rules.
Rural Welfare (excluding Adi Dravidar Welfare and Administration of Scheduled areas).
Streets - Change of names of streets in Village Panchayats, and Panchayat Unions Approval of
Government.
Taxes on advertisements other than advertisements published in news papers leviable by Village
Panchayats and Panchayat Unions.
Taxes on animals.
Tolls (including tolls on Vehicles and animals entering a notified festival area).
Concurrent Subjects -
Union Subjects -
NIL
State Subjects:-
Education:-
Books and Periodicals - Questions relating to their purchase and supply to public officers.
Public Services - Statutory Rules of Services with which this department is concerned. Revision of
and amendments to those Rules.
Physical Education
(*Added vide G.O.Ms.No.76, P&AR (A) Department dated 17.4.2001)
Physical Education.
Sports Councils.
State Works and Buildings under the Administrative Control of this Department.
Concurrent Subjects:-
Union Subjects.-
State Subjects:-
Construction Wing of Industries under the control of Commissioner and Direct of Industries and
Commerce.
Industrial Co-operative Schemes for specific Small Scale Industries under control of Industries
Commissioner and Director of Industries and Commerce.
Incorporation, regulation and winding up of Corporations other than those specified under "Union
Subjects" unincorporated trading, literacy, scientific, religious and other societies and Associations in
respect of Small Scale Industries.
Manufacture of Television Sets and Review of the progress of the Electronic Industry in Small
Scale Sector.
Intoxicating liquors, that is to say the production, manufacture, possession, transport, purchase
and sale of intoxicating liquors for small industrial purposes.
Public Services - Statutory Rules of the Services with which the department concerned - Revision
of and amendments to those rules.
Purchase of materials, stores, machinery or other goods mentioned in Appendix.5 to the Tamil
Nadu Financial Code, Volume II required for the State matters of policy relating to Small Industries.
State works and Buildings under the administrative control of Industries and Commerce
department.
Trade and Commerce other than Enemy Trading relating to Small Industries.
Concurrent Subjects -
Contracts, including partnership, agency, contracts of carriages and other special forms of contract
but not including contracts relating to agricultural land relating to Small Scale Sectors.
Union Subjects:-
Control orders relating to Coal and Coke, Iron and Steel relating to Small Industries.
Customs duties including export duties relating to Small Industries Development of Industries
where development under Union control is declared by Union Law to be expedient in the Public
interest with reference to Small Industries.
Import and Export across customs frontier relating to Small Industries.
Incorporation, regulation and winding up of Trading Corporations including Banking, Insurance and
Financial Corporation but not including Co-operative Societies relating to Small Industries.
Inventions, designs, trade marks and merchandise marks relating to Small Industries.
Encouragement of Social Reforms measures like abolition of dowry, widows remarriage, inter-
caste marriages and propaganda on evils of drinking;
Formulation of schemes for women suitably empowering them, for their economic, political and
social upliftment in order to emancipate women from superstitious beliefs and unscientific customs;
Propagating the life history and counsel of great World Reformers through Libraries, Educational
Institutions and Mass Media;
Suggestions to incorporate changes in curriculam in order to inculcate a scientific and rational way
of thinking in the minds of young pupils;
To create opportunities to strengthen the unity among all religions and communities;
To encourage the publication and production of pamphlets, advertisement and art based
propaganda which will enlighten the people.
Concurrent Subjects --
NIL
Union Subjects --
NIL
State Subjects -
Monigar Choultry including the other Charitable Institutions, namely, Friends-in-need Society,
Madras, Ooty and Salvation Army, Madras.
Nutrition.
Welfare and advancement of Women except encouragement of social reforms measures like
abolition of dowry, widows remarriages.
Welfare and Rehabilitation of Leprosy Beggars - Prevention of Begging Act - Care of Beggars -
Welfare and Rehabilitation of mentally handicapped children, Welfare and Rehabilitation of Physically
handicapped.
Concurrent Subjects -
Union Subjects -
NIL
TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT
State Subjects -
Transport including Transport Development Finance Corporation, Institute of Roads Transport and
Transport Engineering Corporation.
Public Services - Statutory Rules of the Services with which this Department is concerned -
Revision of and amendments to those rules.
Railway accidents.
Concurrent Subjects -
Rail Transport including land acquisition but excluding matters pertaining to over bridges and
subways.
Union Subjects -
Air Craft and Air navigation, regulation and organisation of air traffic and of aerodromes.
Posts and telegraphs including wireless broadcasting and other like forms of communications but
excluding Telephones.
Railways.
State Subjects -
Archaeology.
Museums.
Public Services - Statutory Rules of the Services with which the department is concerned -
Revision of and amendments to these rules.
State Works and buildings under the administrative control of the Hindu
Religious and Charitable Endowments Department.
Tamil - Culture.
Translations Wing.
Concurrent Subjects:-
Charities and Charitiable Institution, Charitable and Religious Endowments and Religious
Institutions.
Visits - Cultural exchange Programme and Cultural activities programmes of Government of India.
Union Subjects -
The Indian Museum and any other similar institutions controlled or financed by Union Government.
State Subjects :-
Implementation of various schemes of Government of India and of the State Government aimed
at the promotion of Sports and youth Welfare.
Nehru yuvak Kendras and all welfare activities pertaining to the non-student youth community
both in rural and urban areas.
Promotion of the formation of Youth Clubs, associations, self-help groups in all villages and
towns, which will constitute a volunteer force to foster development in the spirit of "Namakku Naame"
(self help and to promote literacy, scientific temper, communal harmony, national integration and
pride in cultural heritage of the State among the General Public.
Provision of career counselling about various competitive examinations, career opportunities and
avenues for self employment that are open to students of Schools and Colleges.
Sports Development Authority of Tamil Nadu and all matters relating to Sports.
Concurrent Subjects -
Funding, Monitoring and Co-ordination of activities relating to :
Union Subjects -
- N I L -.
* substituted vide G.O.Ms.No.76, P & AR(A) Dept., dated 17.4.2001
SECOND SCHEDULE
1. Deleted.
3. Omitted.
5. Omitted.
6. Omitted.
7. Omitted.
8. Any proposal involving any action of the dismissal, removal or suspension of a Member of the
Public Service Commission.
9. Deleted.
10.Deleted.
11.Proposals for the imposition of a new tax or any change in the method of assessment or the
pitch of any existing tax or land revenue or irrigation rates.
12. Any proposal involving an expenditure of rupees fifty lakhs and above recurring and rupees
one crore and above non-recurring which affects the finances of the State which has not the consent
of the Finance Minister.
13.Any proposal for reappropriation to which the consent of the Finance Minister is required and
has been withheld.
14.Proposals involving the alienation either temporary or permanent or of sale, grant or lease of
Government property exceeding Rs. 20,00,000/- (Rupees twenty lakhs only) in value, except when
such alienation, sale, grant or lease of Government property is in accordance with the rules or with a
general scheme already approved by the Council.
Explanation - Cases in respect of sale at market value of land irrigable or likely to be brought
under irrigation from an irrigation project under execution to Sivoijamadars who may have spent an
appreciable amount in improving it when the value of the land exceed Rs. 1,00,000/- (Rupees One
lakh only) shall subject to the orders of the Chief Minister be placed before the Councils.
15.The annual audit review of the finances of the State and the board audit comments and salient
features of the report of the Public Accounts Committee.
16.Proposals involving any important change of policy or practice.
16.B. Proposals which adversely affect the operation of the policy laid down by the Central
Government.
17. Deleted.
18. Deleted.
19. Omitted.
20 (1) Reports of the Committees which are to be placed before the Legislature according to Law;
21. Deleted.
22. Schemes of new expenditure whether they are technically New Services or not if the
estimated cost of the scheme exceeds Rs. 5,00,000/- (Rupees five lakhs only) per annum recurring
or Rs.10,00,000/- (Rupees ten lakhs only) non-recurring, except in respect of Committees constituted
by Government for which the limits are Rs.2,00,000/- (Rupees two lakhs only) recurring and
Rs.4,00,000/- (Rupees four lakhs only recurring.
23. Schemes involving the abandonment of existing revenue when the amount of revenue to be
foregone exceeds Rs. 3,50,000/- (Rupees three lakhs and fifty thousand only) per annum recurring or
Rs.8,00,000/- (Rupees eight lakhs only) non-recurring or when the scheme involves a change of
policy.
24. All schemes of new expenditure approved by the Standing Finance Committee of the Cabinet.
Explanation - The reference to the Council of Ministers of the Schemes refer- red to in items 22 to
24 above may be waived in such special cases and subject to such conditions as may be specified by
the Government from time to time.
25. Cases required by the Chief Minister to be brought before the Council.
PART II
SECRETARIAT INSTRUCTIONS
CHAPTER I - GENERAL
(Instructions issued by the Governor under rule 63 of the Tamil Nadu Government Business Rules.)
1. These instructions may be called "The Tamil Nadu Government Secretariat Instructions".
(1) `Case' includes the papers under consideration and all previous papers and notes put up in
connection therewith to enable the questions raised to be disposed of;
(2) `Department' means a department of the Secretariat acting under the direction of the Minister
incharge or otherwise acting on behalf of the Government in accordance with the provisions in that
behalf contained in the Business Rules and these
Instructions;
(3) `Minister-in-charge' means the Minister appointed by the Governor to be in-charge of the
department or part of the department to which a case belongs;
(4) A case shall deemed to belong to the department which in the ordinary course of business
would deal with it and issue orders upon it or to which it has been allotted;
(5) References in these instructions to cases involving financial issues or proposals affecting the
finances of the State shall be construed as references to the cases or proposals in respect of which
the Finance Department is required to be consulted under Business Rule 10(1).
3.(1) Subject to any Standing Orders issued under Business Rule 22, the Secretary in each
department shall circulate files to the Minister-in-charge or to other Ministers in the following cases
before issue of orders:-
(b) Cases relating to such scheme of new expenditure as may be specified by the Government
from time to time.
(c) Cases where there is a difference of opinion between the Secretary concerned and the Head of
a Department.
(d) Cases where the conduct of a Government Servant is involved and also petitions to
Government relating to disciplinary cases from subordinate staff of Heads of Departments.
(e) Cases where rules are intended to be relaxed in favour of a Government servant;
Provided that cases involving relaxation of rules need not be circulated to the Minister
concerned if all the concerned departments agree.
(g) Cases where it is proposed to deviate from the advice of the Tamil Nadu Public Service
Commission.
(h) All matters in which there is a difference of opinion between this Government and other State
Governments or the Government of India.
(i) All other cases which the Secretary considers to be of importance for circulation to the Ministers:
Provided that -
(A) No case shall be circulated to the Ministers other than the Minister in-charge until it has been
seen by the Minister in-charge and, if so required by the Finance Department, also by the Finance
Minister;
(B) When ever it is proposed to issue orders by which the Secretary or any Gazetted Officer in his
department of the Secretariat will be directly or indirectly benefited, the case shall be circulated
through the Chief Secretary to the Minister in-charge before orders are passed.
(j) Cases in which materials have to be furnished to the Government of India for answering Lok
Sabha and Rajya Sabha questions.
(2) Cases of routine nature or cases which the circulating officer does not consider to be of
sufficient importance need not be circulated to any Minister;
(3) It shall be open to the Minister in-charge of a department to direct that any case in his
department shall be submitted to him for orders and the Secretary in the department shall submit the
case to him accordingly;
(4) Subject to the provisions of clauses (1) to (3), the Secretary in each department shall
ordinarily dispose of cases which do not involve the adoption of any new Policy or principle or are not
of such importance or special interest as to require the orders of the Minister in-charge; provided
that the concurrence of the Finance and any other department concerned has been obtained if
financial or other implications are involved. If the case concerns two or more departments and the
Secretaries of the departments do not agree as to its disposal the case shall be circulated to the
Ministers-in-charge of the departments concerned.
Explanation - A Secretary to Government may, without circulation order the publication of a formal
notification embodying temporary grade promotions or reversions where such promotions or
reversions follow seniority strictly and the Secretary has no reason to doubt that the Government
would approve of them.
4. Where a case is to be circulated to two or more Ministers, the order of circulation shall, save as
otherwise provided in these Instructions, be as follows:-
(2) next to the Finance Minister, if financial issues are involved of, if circulation to him is required
by the Finance Department;
(3) then to any other Minister or Ministers directly concerned with the subject-matter of the case, in
the order of juniority; and
Provided that where a case is to be circulated to the Chief Minister in his capacity as the Finance
Minister or as the Minister in-charge, it shall be circulated to him last, after all other Ministers
concerned have seen it.
Provided further that the Secretary in the department concerned may in his discretion, interrupt
circulation at any stage, if he considers that such a step is necessary with reference to the minutes
recorded in the file by any Minister.
5. A Minister differing from the minutes of any other Minister or Ministers or requiring further
information may, in his discretion, send the file back to such other Minister or Ministers or to the
Secretary. Ordinarily in all other cases when a file is marked for more than two Ministers and two
disagree, the file shall be circulated to the other Minister or Ministers without interruption. This does
not derogate from a Secretary's power to interrupt circulation in his discretion under the proviso to
Instruction-4.
6. Where a file is to be circulated to one or more of the Ministers and the Governor, it shall, after it
has been seen by the Minister or Ministers, ordinarily be sent to the Secretary of the department
concerned before it is circulated to the Governor.
7. Where a Minister passes orders contrary to the orders suggested in the noting, further
circulation shall invariably be interrupted and the file sent to the Chief Secretary or the Secretary of
the department concerned, as the case may be.
8.(1) The Secretary in a department is a Secretary to the Government and not to the Minister in-
charge of the department. It is the duty of the Secretary to see that the policy of the Government in
the department with which he is concerned is carried out. The Secretary shall have the right to
tender the necessary advice to the Minister either orally or in a written note at any time before the
Minister passes final orders on a case. It shall also be the duty of the Secretary to draw the attention
of the Minister to the fact that any proposed course of action is contrary to the provisions of any rule or
law or is at variance with the previous policy adopted by the Government.
(2) Where a Secretary observes any errors of facts in a Minister's note, he shall return the case to
the Minister with a note.
9. It shall be the duty of the Secretary in the department concerned to bring to the notice of the
Chief Minister the cases referred to in clauses (iv), (vii), (xxi) and (xxx) of rule 35 (1) (a) of the
Business Rules.
10. All cases which have to be submitted to the Governor shall be submitted to him only through
the Minister or Ministers concerned and the Chief Minister.
11. Where under these Instructions a case has to be submitted to the Governor through one or
more Ministers, the Secretary shall indicate the fact when submitting the case to the Minister or
Ministers.
12. As soon as any Cipher Code Telegram from the Government of India of elsewhere has been
decoded, the Public Department should send a copy of it to the Department of the Secretariat
concerned.
This instruction does not relieve the Secretary of the department concerned from the responsibility
of acquainting the Chief Minister or Minister concerned or both forthwith, either by not or by sending
an advance copy of any important telegrams received whether in Code or not.
13.(i) In submitting proposals for the appointment, posting, or promotion of an officer, the
Secretary shall append a note showing whether the proposed appointment posting or promotion is or
is not in compliance with the rules governing the service to which the officer belongs.
(ii) Appointments, postings and promotions shall be made in accordance with the following
provisions:-
(1) All correspondence dealing with appointments, postings and promotions shall be treated as
strictly confidential and shall be kept as far as possible in the hands of Gazetted Officers of the
Secretariat.
(b) all those not under any departmental head, as for example, appointments of heads of
departments themselves and of members of the Indian Civil Service and the Indian Administrative
Service.
(3) In the case of appointments of the first class, the head of the department will prepare in the
subjoined Form a note pointing out the vacancy and the conditions of appointment and naming such
persons as are entitled to the appointment under the rules governing the service or appear to be
best qualified for the appointment and will forward it to the Secretary in the department concerned. In
the case of appointments of the second class, the Secretary will himself prepare the Form
Immediately on receipt or preparation, as the case may be, the Secretary shall submit the form to the
Chief Minister through the Minister or Ministers concerned.
FORM
Confidential
Officer's name Appointment and Period for which held If returing from leave
posting now or last
held.
(1) (2) (3) (4)
M. Y M. Y
Proposed Qualification in Remarks(the head of the department
appointment and language or area in including cause of vacancy and
posting employed. which to be reasons for session (if any) of officers and for
super transfers of officers other wise than on
promotion or reversion).
Explanation - This Form should not be used in the case of proposals for appointment of
approved probationers as full members of a service. In such cases, proposals should be submitted in
the Form of an unofficial note containing all the necessary particulars.
(4) All proposals, for the appointment of heads of departments shall be submitted to the Minister or
Ministers concerned through the Chief Secretary in cases where the Chief Secretary is not himself the
Secretary in the department concerned.
(5) In the case of appointments of District Judges (which expression shall include an
Additional, Joint or Assistant District Judge, the Chief Judge, Court of Small Causes, Principal Judge
and Additional Judges, City Civil Court, Administrator-General and Official Trustee, the Chief
Metropolitan Magistrate, a Sessions Judge and an Additional or Assistant Sessions Judge), the Chief
Secretary will obtain such applications and information, if any, relating to the appointment about to
be made, as may be available in the Secretariat, and will forward them demi-officially to the Chief
Justice. The Chief Secretary will point out the vacancy and conditions of appointment and request the
Hon'ble the Judges of the High Court to forward a list of persons whom they may consider to have
reasonable claims to the appointment or to be suitable therefor, with their remarks regarding the
qualifications and claims of the several persons in the list. The Chief Secretary will request the Chief
Justice to treat the papers forwarded to him as strictly confidential and to return them with his reply.
The list will be submitted to the Governor through the Minister concerned and the Chief Minister.
This procedure is not necessary in the case of appointments of District Judges from among the
members of the Tamil Nadu State Judicial Service (Chief Judicial Magistrates). Such appointments
will be made as vacancies arise from lists prepared by the High Court and forwarded to the Chief
Secretary, of Chief Judicial Magistrates fit to be appointed to act as District Judges.
(6) The provisions of this instruction will apply mutatis muntatis to a proposal to lend the services
of a gazetted officer to the Government of India or to a State Government or on foreign service; but it
shall not be necessary to prepare the form of recommendation prescribed in clause (3).
(7) After a case has been dealt with in accordance with the procedure laid down in the
preceding clauses and the orders of the Chief Minister or the Governor, as the case may be, have
been obtained, the Secretary in the department will communicate the orders passed to the head of
the department and will also in due course publish the necessary notification in the Tamil Nadu
Government Gazette.
14.(1) An application for leave made by a gazetted officer on which orders have to be passed by
the Government shall be submitted to the Minister or Ministers in charge of the department or
departments concerned and the Chief Minister -
(b) if being an application for leave of not less than three months, it is made by an officer belonging
to an All-India Service.
(2) All other applications for leave by gazetted officers on which orders have to be passed by the
Government shall be submitted to Minister or Ministers in charge of the department or departments
concerned.
Provided that all applications for leave made by gazetted officers not involving transfers need not
be circulated to the Minister or Ministers in charge of the department or departments concerned and
to the Chief Minister.
15. All proposals for the grant of leave or an extension of service to a gazetted officer after the
date on which he should retire compulsorily shall be submitted to the Minister-in-charge and to the
Chief Minister.
16. All applications for permission to retire on proportionate pension shall be submitted to the
Minister in-charge and to the Chief Minister.
17. Cases relating to the grant of compassionate gratuity to the families of deceased Government
servants left in indigent circumstances shall be submitted to the Finance Secretary and Chief
Secretary and where they are in agreement orders shall issue, but cases where there is
disagreement, especially doubtful cases which involves a depature from the rules or the policy
previously followed shall be circulated to the Finance Minister for orders.
18.(1) Each department to which a case is sent with reference to rule 28 of the Business Rules
shall be entitled to ask that the case before disposal should be submitted to its own Minister. Where
such a request is made the case shall be circulated first to the Minister in-charge of the department
in which it originated.
(2) Where a case is of extreme urgency and in consequence is not dealt with in accordance with
this procedure, it shall be sent at the earliest opportunity to each department concerned which has not
already seen it.
(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in this instruction, all cases un which a reference to the
Finance Department is necessary under Business Rule 10(1) shall, irrespective of their urgency, be
referred to that department before issue of orders or circulation to any Minister.
Provided that where an administrative department proposes not to proceed with a proposal
involving expenditure or loss of revenue, the Secretary may, without referring the case to the Finance
Department circulate it for orders to the Minister concerned. If, however, the Minister does not
agree with the administrative department, he will, without setting down at that stage his views on the
merits of the proposal, ask for the examination thereof by the Finance Department. When a case is
circulated to a Minister under this proviso, the Secretary shall draw the attention of the Minister
specifically to the above provision.
19. Where it is proposed to make any rules in the exercise of a statutory power which is not
subject to the condition of the rules being made after previous publication, the administrative
department shall, if the public are likely to be interested in the subject-matter of the rules and if
circumstances permit, obtain orders in circulation whether the rules should be published in draft for
public criticism.
20.(1) The memorandum referred to in rule 17 of the Business Rules may include extracts of
minutes by the Ministers and the Secretaries and shall contain a paragraph towards the end clearly
stating the various points for decision. The memorandum should be self-contained and appendices
should be avoided as for as possible. It should be submitted (if time permits) to the Secretary to the
Council for scrutiny and approval before circulation to the Minister in charge, who will sign the
memorandum after making or ordering such modifications as he considers necessary. The Minister's
signature will be typed or printed on the fair copies. After circulating copies of the memorandum to
the Ministers and the Governor, the Secretary will bring the file to the cabinet meeting with copies of
any Act, rules, reports, etc., which may be required for reference at the meeting.
(2) A quorum of Ministers numbering fifty per cent of the strength of the cabinet plus one will be
necessary for the transaction of the business at the Meeting.
22. Every case containing a proposal for the settlement of a dispute by the method of
conference between this Government and an outside authority relating to a matter which is of
sufficient importance to require the consideration of the Government as a whole, shall be circulated
to all the Ministers for orders together with a note setting out clearly -
(2) the opinion on those issues of the head of the department or other sub-ordinate authority
concerned which should be obtained before hand and placed on record;
(4) The proposals regarding the constitution of the conference and the selection of persons to
represent this Government at the conference.
23. A Secretary may, without submitting the draft to any Minister or to the Governor, direct the
issue of any despatch letter, order or reference in any case on which orders have been duly passed in
accordance with these instructions:
Provided that -
(a) If a Minister or the Governor has desired that any draft should be sent to him before issue, it
shall be sent;
(b) No reference shall be issued from any department on the suggestion of a Minister not in charge
of the department without the knowledge of the Minister in charges of it;
(c) omitted.
(d) Where two or more Ministers, to whom a case has been circulated, express views on it which,
without being at variance with one another, deal with different points, the views of the Ministers shall,
as far as possible, be incorporated in the order.
(e) If a draft is to be sent to a Minister not in charge of the department, it shall be sent first to the
Minister in charge of the department, then to any other Minister who is to see the draft and afterwards
again to the Minister in charge, if any alteration in the draft is suggested by the other Minister.
A. GOVERNMENT BILLS
24. Heads of Department shall, when necessary, submit proposals for legislation in the form of
letter, explaining the necessity and the scope for legislation. The question of giving publicity to the
proposals and preparing a draft Bill shall, unless otherwise directed, be left to the Government.
25.(1) In the case of every Bill referred to in Business Rule 51(d) twelve copies of the report of
every Select Committee on a Bill and of the Bill as amended by the Select Committee shall be
forwarded by the Law Department to the Government of India, Ministry of law, Justice and Company
Affairs at the time of the presentation of the report to the Legislature.
(2) Petitions relating to Bills shall be considered in the administrative department concerned unless
they are petition to the Legislature.
(3) All amendments to Bills which are to be proposed by a Minister shall be framed by the
administrative department in consultation with the Law Department. Notices to the Legislature in
regard to proposed amendments shall also be prepared by the administrative department.
(4) The notice for the presentation of the report of the Select Committee on a Bill to the
Legislature by the Minister in charge of the Bill shall be prepared by the administrative department
and sent to the Office of the Chamber of the Legislature concerned. A copy of the Notice should
be sent to the Law Department also.
26. Whenever the Government of India are consulted under Business Rules 48(3) or where the
previous sanction of the President is requested, the Administrative Department concerned shall send
to the Government of India six copies of the Bill with the Statement of Objects and Reasons
therefor and in the case of amending Bills shall also send six up-to-date copies of the principal Act or
Acts, Notes on Clauses of the proposed legislation and a comparative statement showing each
relevant provision as it exists, and as it would read after the proposed amendment along with a
certificate in the pro forma given below. All requests for previous sanction of the President under the
proviso to Article 304 (b) of the Constitution of India should be addressed to the Ministry of Home
Affairs, Government of India accompanied by all the papers referred to above and such request
should be sent atleast three weeks before the session of the State Legislature is scheduled to
commence.
PROFORMA.
Certificate in the case of Bill sent for approval and Bill sent for
Previous sanction of the President.
Subject :-
Certified that the following papers in connection with the above mentioned legislative proposal are
attached herewith:-
(1) Six copies of the letter forwarding the proposed draft legislation.
(2) Six copies of the proposed legislation together with an equal number of copies of the Statement
of Objects and Reasons for it.
**(3) If the proposed legislation is an amending one, Six up-to-date copies of the principal Act,
Notes on clauses of the proposed legislator and a comparative statement showing each relevant
provision as it exists, and as it would read after the proposed amendment.
***Signature.
***The certificate should be signed by the Officer under whose signature the proposal is sent.
27.(1) If an amendment proposed to be moved by the Minister incharge of the Bill is one which
requires the previous sanction of the President or recommendation of the Governor under the
Constitution or in respect of which a doubt arises whether such sanction or recommendation is
necessary, the administrative department shall submit the papers to the Governor for orders through
the Minister or Ministers concerned, and the Chief Minister.
B. PRIVATE BILLS
28. Twelve copies of every Bill introduced by a private member in either Chamber of the
Legislature which falls within the concurrent Legislative List and which is likely to go forward, shall, at
some convenient stage after its introduction, be
forwarded by the Law Department to the Government of India, Ministry of Law Justice and Company
Affairs.
29. A copy of every Bill which falls within the concurrent legislative list or which attracts the
provision of clause (2) of Article 31 or clause (1) of Article 31-A or Article 31-C of the Constitution and
which is likely to go forward shall be forwarded by the administrative department principally
concerned, to the administrative department of the Government of India dealing with the subject-
matter of the Bill, at some convenient stage after its introduction. If time permits, the administrative
department shall also inform the Government of India of all important amendments to such Bills.
30. In the case of a Bill introduced in either Chamber of the Legislature which attracts the
provisions of clause (2) of Article 31, clause (1) of Article 31-A or Article 31-C of the Constitution and
which is likely to go forward, copies thereof shall be sent to the administrative department of the
Government of India dealing with the subject matter of the Bill at some convenient stage after its
introduction. If time permits, the administrative department shall also inform the Government of India
of all amendments relating to compensation to such Bills.
C. ALL BILLS
31. After a Bill is passed by the Legislature and on receipt of information as to the date on
which the Bill was passed by the Legislative Assembly and the Legislative council, the Law
Department shall forward to the Government of India, Ministry of Home Affairs a copy of the Bills as
passed by the Legislature together with information as to the date on which the bill was passed by
each Chamber.
32. The Administrative department concerned shall send to the Government of India, Ministry of
Food and Agriculture, the Planning Commission, New Delhi and the Ministry of Home Affairs two
copies of each of every Bill on Land Reforms, as soon as it is published in the Tamil Nadu
Government Gazette and before it is introduced in the Legislature.
33. Twelve copies of all Acts assented to by the Governor or President shall be forwarded by the
Law Department to the Government of India, Ministry of Law, Justice and Company Affairs.
34.(1) When addressing the Ministry of Home Affairs for obtaining the President's assent with
reference to Business Rule 55(2), the Law Department shall simultaneously forward to that Ministry
the following papers (along with a certificate in the pro-forma given below) namely:-
(i) Three authentic copies of the Bill, printed on parchment paper, each endorsed by the Governor
receiving the Bill for the consideration of the President and leaving sufficient space below the
Governor's signature for appropriate endorsement by the President.
(ii) Six other copies of the bill as passed by the State Legislature.
(iii) Six copies of the Bill as introduced, with the Statement of Objects and Reasons therefor.
(iv) The report of the Select Committee of the State Legislature, if any, along with three copies of
the Bill, as approved by that Committee.
(v) In case the Legislation is an amending Bill, six up-to-date copies of the Principal Act, Notes
on Clauses of the proposed legislation and comparative statement showing each relevant provision as
it exists, and as it would read after the proposed amendment.
(vi) Six copies of the proceedings of the Legislature relating to the Bill or advance proof thereof.
(vii) Six copies of the memorandum explaining the scope of the Bill and embodying a summary of
the proceedings of the Legislature relating to the Bill:
Provided that where copies of the advance proof of the proceedings of the Legislature are sent to
the Ministry of Home Affairs, the final copies of the proceedings shall be sent to the Ministry of Home
Affairs as soon as they become available.
Explanations-(1) While reserving the Bill for the consideration of the President, in the case of
legislation attracting the provisions of Article 254(2) of the Constitution, the extent of repugnancy to
existing Central Laws on the subjects enumerated in the concurrent list should be clearly
explained in the forwarding letter. Similarly, in the case of legislation which is reserved for the
consideration of the President for some other reason, the specific ground on which it is so reserved
should be clearly brought out in the State Government's forwarding letter and the relevant provisions
of the Constitution should be specifically quoted.
(2) In sending Bill for the assent of the President, it should be clarified in the forwarding letter
whether the proposal had been sent earlier for the approval of the Central Government prior to its
introduction in the State Legislature, and if so, which of the suggestions observations made by the
Ministry of Home Affairs in regard to that proposal have been incorporated with or without
modifications as also which of the suggestions observations have not been carried out with reasons
therefor.
PRO FORMA
Certificate in the case of Bill sent for obtaining assent of the President.
* Subject :- ....................
Certified that the following documents in connection with the above mentioned legislative proposal
have been attached herewith:-
2. Three authentic copies of the legislation printed on parchment paper, each endorsed by the
Governor reserving the legislation for the consideration of the President, and leaving sufficient space
below the Governor's signature for appropriate endorsement by the President.
4. Six copies of the Bill as introduced with the Statement of Objects and Reasons therefor.
5. The report of the Select Committee, if any, along with three copies of the Bill as revised by that
committee.
** 6. If the legislation is an amending one, Six Up-to-date copies of the principal Act, Notes on
the clauses of the proposed legislation and a comparative statement showing each relevant provision
as it exist and as it would read after the proposed amendment.
***Signature.
*** The Certificate should be signed by the Officer under whose signature the proposal is sent.
(2) The Bill and the connected papers referred to in clause (1) should be forwarded to the
Government of India, Ministry of Home Affairs, so as to allow a reasonable time of not less than a
fortnight from the date of receipt of the Bill by the Government of India, for examination of the Bill by
them.
Explanation - If for any reason a Bill should become law before certain date, the Administrative
Department should take steps for the introduction of the Bill well in advance of that date and for the
passage of the Bill through the various stages, so that after the Bill is passed by the Legislature,
there would be sufficient time for obtaining the President's assent and for publishing the Act in the
Tamil Nadu Government Gazette before the said date.
35.(1) The Administrative Department concerned should forward all legislative proposals,
which are to be enacted by means of an Ordinance and which require the previous instructions of the
President under the proviso to Article 213 (1) of the Constitution, to the Ministry of Home Affairs,
allowing a reasonable time of not less than a fortnight, for their examination. Six copies of
the draft Ordinance accompanied by other documents mentioned in Instruction 34 (1) should also
be forwarded. The forwarding letter should explain the necessity for the promulgation of the
Ordinance, the object sought to be achieved by the proposed legislation and the specific ground on
which it is considered necessary to obtain the President's instruction for the promulgation of the
Ordinance. The relevant Article of the Constitution which render such approval necessary should also
be quoted.
(2) One copy of the Act assented to by the Governor shall also be forwarded by the Law
Department to the Ministry of Home Affairs together with information as to the number of the Act, the
date of assent and the date of publication of the Act in the Tamil Nadu Government Gazette.
D. MISCELLANEOUS
36. As soon as a department in-charge of a Bill receives notice of a meeting of the Select
Committee of the Legislature in respect thereof it shall intimate the fact immediately to every other
department which is concerned with the Bill.
37. The Director of Stationery and Printing will send to the Public Department copies of all Bills
with statement of Objects and Reasons and of Acts as soon as they are published in the Gazette. On
receipt, the Public Department will consider whether the legislation will be of interest to the troops,
and, if so, will ask the Administrative Department concerned for a short summary of them in simple
language. This will be communicated to the General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Southern
Command, Poona by the Public Department.
38. The Government of India shall be informed of any difficulties encountered in the working of
the laws falling within the concurrent legislative field in order that legislation in that field shall, as far as
possible, be undertaken only after consultation between the State and Central Governments, the
method of consultation to be either by correspondence, or conference, according to the importance of
the legislation or the urgency of the case. Correspondence in this regard shall be between the
Administrative Departments concerned of the State and Central Governments.
39. The Administrative Department concerned shall also inform the Government of India of any
difficulties encountered in the working of Laws and Land Reforms or of laws attracting the provisions
of Article 31(2) or 31-A(1) or 31-C of the Constitution.
40. It is the duty of the Secretary to take efficient steps for the prompt despatch of business in
accordance with these instructions.
41. Consultation with other departments should wherever practicable, be effected by personal
discussion between responsible Officers of the departments concerned and the result of such
discussion should be recorded in a note agreed between those officers.
42. Officers of all ranks should take responsibility in settling minor cases without submitting them
to higher authority and no cases should reach a Secretary or Minister except those of real importance.
44. All proposals for relaxation of Statutory Rules should be seen by the Personnel and
Administrative Reforms (Personnel) Department and all cases, in which it is proposed to give
retrospective effect to the relaxation or exemption orders with monetary benefits should be seen by
the Finance Department.
45. Before a file is sent to another department, the proposals should, wherever possible, be
embodied in the form of a draft.
46. When a case is sent for the remarks of another department unaccompanied by a draft, the
department of origin shall state, with as much precision as possible, the specific points on which the
remarks of the other department are invited and the department referred to shall avoid repeating in its
notes what is already sufficiently stated in the notes of the department of origin.
47. Where it is necessary to consult more than one department on a case, such consultation
should take place simultaneously except when the multiplication of documents to be sent would
involve an excessive expenditure of time and labour or when the occasion for consulting the
second department does not arise until the result of consulting some other department is known.
Where simultaneous references are made to more than one department the file may if desired, be
sent to one of such departments, communication with the other department being by unofficial note
or demi official letter except in cases which can be disposed of by verbal consultation.
48. When a case is sent to another department for opinion and that the other department
considers that an outside officer should be consulted it shall state the fact in the note file and return
the case to the department of origin which will issue the reference.
Explanation - When a department calls for any information from other departments for examining a
general question, references, if any, to the outside offices should be issued by the administrative
department concerned.
49. When a head of a department has submitted a scheme for the approval of the Government
and it is considered necessary that other officers should be consulted on the scheme, the matter shall
be referred back to the head of department that submitted the scheme with the request that he
should consult the other officers concerned either individually or by a conference and after the various
points have been discussed with them submit final proposals to Government.
50. When a case has been sent for acceptance in another department and the department of
origin, without circulating the case to any Minister proposes to issue orders upon it which differ
materially from the draft or proposals accepted in the other department, the case shall be sent a
second time to that department before orders are issued. Where, however, such a case has been
decided in circulation, a reference back to the department or departments to whom the case was
originally sent shall not be necessary unless -
(a) there is any doubt as to the form of the order to be issued, in which case the draft shall be sent
to the other department or departments before issue; or
(b) it is essential that the other department or departments should be made aware of the orders
passed in circulation in which case the file may be sent to the other department or departments after
issue of the order.
51. Wherever the views of a department have been overruled or not accepted by the Chief
Minister or any Minister as the case may be, the case should be put up for perusal by the Secretary of
the department concerned before orders are issued. In cases of extreme urgency, the case may be
put up after issue. Whether the Secretary will take up the matter to get revised orders is left to him,
but in such cases, the initiating department should also be kept in the picture, so that all concerned
may have a fair chance to present their respective view points before the original decision is reversed.
52. The Finance department shall have the following powers and responsibilities:-
(a) It shall be responsible for the safety and proper employment of all funds;
(b) It shall advise on the financial aspect of all transactions relating to loans granted by the
Government;
(c) It shall have power to prescribe for the guidance of other departments, financial rules, including
rules relating to financial procedure and the application of the principles of sound finance, and to
ensure that suitable accounts, including commercial accounts, wherever necessary, are maintained
by other departments and establishments subordinate to them;
(d) In connection with the annual financial statement and supplementary statements of
expenditure, it shall have power to prescribe the units of appropriation to require the departments to
furnish materials on which to base the estimates and to examine and advice on all schemes of new
expenditure for which it is proposed to make provision in the estimates and to decline to provide in the
estimates for any scheme which has not been so examined;
(e) On receipt of a report from the audit officer to the effect that expenditure for which there is no
sufficient sanction is being incurred, to require the department concerned to take steps to obtain
sanction or that the expenditure shall immediately cease;
(f) To bring to the notice of the Committee on Public Accounts all expenditure which has not been
duly authorized and any financial irregularities;
(g) It shall advise departments responsible for the collection of revenue regarding the progress of
collection and the methods of collection employed;
(h) It shall have power to decide to what extent in particular departments the audit of receipts
should be enforced.
53. Administrative departments of the Secretariat shall consult the Finance Department before
issuing orders on any of the following matters:-
Explanation - Cases of financial irregularities in which a reference to the Tamil Nadu Public
Service Commission or the Union Public Service Commission is necessary should be sent to the
Finance Department before making such a reference to the Commission and also after the
recommendation of the Commission is received.
(3) Audit reports of the Examiner of Local Fund Accounts when the reports mention serious
irregularities or when the administrative department differs from the Examiner or when the Examiner
specially request that the report should be seen by the Finance Department.
56. Whenever a case is referred to the Accountant-General, the particular point or points on
which his remarks are invited should be definitely stated. Cases containing proposals to relax existing
rules or to grant concessions not strictly admissible under the rules in force should not ordinarily be
referred to him at all. In such cases, the administrative department concerned should in the first
instance consult the Finance Department and if the Finance Department advise that the Accountant-
General should be consulted on any particular point a reference should then be made to the
Accountant-General accordingly.
57. When a scheme has to be formulated for carrying out proposals, it shall be the duty of the
Secretariat to think out the problem and its solution before any reference to Collectors or other
authorities outside the Secretariat is made. When such a reference is made the lines on which the
scheme should be drawn up or the exact information that is required should be clearly indicated.
In all cases references to Collectors or other outside authority should be made only for such
information as is not available in the Secretariat.
58. Any report which reflect adversely on the conduct of an officer originally appointed by the
former Secretary of State or a member of the Indian Administrative Service or an officer holding a post
included in the cadre of those services, shall, immediately on receipt in any department of the
Secretariat, be communicated to the Public Department. Any case in another department which
relates to the conduct of any such officer shall be sent to the Public Department before circulation,
and a copy of the orders finally passed shall be communicated to that department.
Copies of communication of "displeasure" of the Government in the case of I.A.S. Officers, District
Revenue Officers, Joint Secretaries (Non-I.A.S.), Deputy Secretaries (Non-I.A.S.) and other Heads of
Departments (Non-I.A.S.) should be signed by the Chief Secretary to Government.
59. All orders which involve temporary or permanent additions to posts in the Indian
Administrative Cadre, Tamil Nadu or to posts of Judges of the High Court or which involve the
keeping in abeyance or the abolition of any such post all be issued in the Public Department even
though the desirability of making the proposed change is a matter for previous consideration in
another department of the Secretariat. All correspondence with the Government of India on these
subjects shall be dealt with the Public Department.
60. In the case of Building works, proposals relating to construction of buildings are received
by the administrative departments directly from the Heads of Department under their control and dealt
with in the concerned Administrative Departments and orders are issued by the concerned
departments. This will apply for the Buildings both borne in the Register of Public Buildings as well as
the other buildings which are not borne in the Register of Public Buildings. So far as the proposal for
reappropriation or additional appropriation of funds are concerned, the Chief Engineer (Buildings)
who is the budget estimating authority in respect of buildings borne in the Register of Public Buildings,
will send proposals to the Finance Department with a copy to Public Works Department. Orders on
such proposals are issued only in the Finance Department. Regarding the other buildings which are
not borne in the Register of Public Buildings, such proposals are not received in Public Works
Department as the expenditure in such cases are not met from the Civil Works budget.
61. Administrative departments shall consult the Public Works Department before issuing orders
exempting Officers from occupying Government quarters provided for them.
62. A case involving the use of lands within port limits shall be dealt with in the Transport
Department or in the Revenue Department according as the purposes for which the land is required
are marine or non-marine but each department shall consult the other before orders are issued.
63. An application for the construction or extension of a jetty on the foreshore of a port shall be
dealt with in the Transport Department, the draft order being forwarded to the Revenue Department
for acceptance before it is issued.
64. Administrative departments of the Secretariat shall consult the Industries Department before
issuing orders on any proposals which involve a departure from the rules governing the purchase of
imported stores.
65. All general orders in regard to the distribution of the Tamil Nadu Government Gazette issue
from the Transport Department. Orders as regards the supply of the gazette to individual officers
issue in the Secretariat department concerned.
66. Applications from heads of department for supply of publication of State or Central
Government either free of cost or on payment of cost, shall be dealt within the administrative
department concerned and orders issued by that department with the concurrence of the Transport
Department.
67. All orders of recognition of Service Associations should be issued in the Personnel and
Administrative Reforms (Personnel) Department.
68. Orders on proposals affecting the administration of justice and particularly on proposals to
be financed from the appropriations in the Budget Estimates under the head "Administration of
Justice", e.g.,creation or abolition of Courts (Civil/Criminal), should be issued by the Home
department after consultation with the High Court:
Provided that orders on proposals of a comparatively unimportant nature may, in cases of urgency,
be issued without such consultation, copies of such orders being sent subsequently to the High Court.
69. Orders sanctioning assignments of land or land revenue should be issued in the Revenue
Department.
70.(1) Land Acquisition is a subject allotted to the Revenue Department, but notifications under
section 4(1) of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (Central Act I of 1894) in Form Nos. 2A and 2B of
Appendix XII to the Land Acquisition Manual, declarations and directions under sections 6 and 7
of that Act in Form Nos. 5-A, 5-A1, 5-B and 5-B1 of the said appendix and withdrawal notifications
under section 48(1) of the same Act may be issued in the department of the Secretariat, which
requires or did require the land, as the case may be. When notifications have to issue under the
Tamil Nadu Survey and Boundaries Act, 1923 (Tamil Nadu Act VIII of 1923), as a result of land
acquisition, the department which issue orders relating to the land acquisition shall also issue the
notification under the Tamil Nadu Survey and Boundaries Act, 1923 (Tamil Nadu Act VIII of 1923).
(2) When it is proposed to acquire land under Part II of the Land Acquisition Act on behalf of a
private institution or body (e.g. for purposes of a school under private management), the case should
be sent to the Revenue Department before the publication of the notification in Form No.2-A in order
that the Revenue department may examine the terms and conditions subject to which the land after
acquisition should be alienated to the private institution or body. When the terms and conditions have
been settled and accepted by the Revenue department the notification in Form 2-A and the
declaration and direction in Form Nos.5-A and 5-B concerned may be issued in the administrative
department concerned without reference to the Revenue department.
(3) When it is proposed to acquire land under Part VII of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (Central
Act I of 1894) for any company, the draft of the agreement to be entered into by the company under
section 41 of that Act should be sent to the Revenue Department for scrutiny before the company is
required to enter into that agreement.
(4) The concurrence of the Revenue department should be obtained in respect of all orders
appointing officers to perform the functions of a Collector under the Act, provided that the general
orders issued by the Revenue department as to the classes of person to be so appointed are to
observed.
(5) the concurrence of the Revenue Department should, however, be obtained in the following
cases:-
(i) Where it is proposed to invoke urgency provisions under section 17 of the Land Acquisition
Act,1894 (Central Act I of 1894);
(ii) Where some special difficulty or a question of principle or interpretation of the Act or rules
regarding land acquisition are involved and
(iii) Where there are objections with reference to 5-A enquiry under the Land Acquisition Act, 1894
(Central Act I of 1894);
(6)(a) The following cases have to be circulated to the Minister-in-charge of the subject by the
departments of Secretariat dealing with land acquisition:-
(i) All cases of land acquisition should be administratively approved by the Minister-in-charge of
the subject in the department since land acquisition under the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (Central Act
I of 1894) is a case of compulsory acquisition for public purpose by the Government. If the Land
Acquisition is part of a scheme already approved as a whole by the Minister it is not necessary to
circulate the case when a land acquisition proposal is taken up separately.
(ii) Wherever there are differences of opinion either between Heads of Department or between
Departments of the Secretariat in a land acquisition case, the file should be circulated to the Minister-
in-charge of the subject.
(iii) Where there are objections to the land acquisition and it is proposed to over rule the
objections and published the draft Declaration and Direction, the file should be circulated to the
Minister-in-charge of the subject along with the relevant draft.
(iv) Where it is proposed to withdraw from the land acquisition files should again be circulated to
the Minister-in-charge of the subject. Circulation to the Chief Minister is not necessary.
(6)(b) Cases dealing with land acquisition where the value of land is above Rs.25,000 should be
circulated to the Chief Minister, if there are objections or complications. Cases of above type need
not however, be circulated to the Chief Minister, if objections are of a routine nature.
71. A case relating to a charity, charitable institution or charitable endowment which makes
provision for a subject dealt with not in the Commercial Taxes and Religious Endowments Department
but in some other department of the Secretariat, shall be dealt with in the latter department, but any
general question raised therein shall be referred to the commercial Taxes and Religious Endowments
Department before orders are passed.
72. Cases in which proposals for making regulations under paragraph 5(2) of the Fifth Schedule
to the Constitution for the peace and good Government of any of the Scheduled Areas in the State are
considered should go through the following stages, namely :-
(4) Tribes Advisory Council stage - When the proposal is placed before the Tribes Advisory
Council under paragraph 5(5) of the Fifth Schedule to the Constitution;
(6) Post-Assent stage - When the regulation assented to by the President is published in the Tamil
Nadu Government Gazette.
The administrative departments concerned with cases involving the issuing of a regulation
should deal with them up to stage (3) and such cases should, immediately after the question of
framing of the regulation is accepted in circulation including the Governor, be transferred to the
Department of Social Welfare which will deal with the files at stages (4) and (5). At stage (4), a senior
representative officer of the administrative department concerned should also be present at the
meeting of the Tribes Advisory Council to help in piloting the subject through it. As soon as the
regulation is assented to by the President, the file will be sent to the Law Department for necessary
action in stage (6), that is, publication of the regulation in the Tamil Nadu Government Gazette.
73. All orders, sanctioning the conditional defence at the public expense of Civil and Criminal
proceedings brought against Public Officers for acts done in their official capacity should be issued in
the Law Department. The department to which the Public officer belongs should also see the case
before issue.
74. All files in which the Advocate-General has expressed opinion on questions of Law shall be
sent to the Law Department for perusal and return and if in any case the file itself cannot conveniently
be sent, a copy of the opinion recorded therein shall be sent.
75. Gazetted Officers should submit their applications to the Government or the Head of the
Department for enrolment in the Indian Territorial Army. The head of the Department or the
Government will, if there is no objection to the applicants joining the Territorial Army, forward the
applications to the Officer Commanding the unit in which they wish to be enrolled.
76. When it is proposed to issue as a State publication any pamphlet bearing on a Central
subject, the department of the Secretariat concerned shall refer the pamphlet in draft to the
department of the Government of India concerned before it is finally printed and issued.
77. The following class of cases in respect of persons recruited by the former Secretary of State
serving in this State shall in the first instance be referred to the Secretary to the Government of India,
Ministry of Home Affairs, before the issue of orders:-
(a) Where it is proposed to deviate from the existing interpretations of the Fundamental Rules or
from decisions of the nature of interpretation of other rules made by the former Secretary of State
(e.g. the Superior Civil Services Rules and Schedule IV thereto; General Provident Fund (Superior
Civil Services Rules) as given by the former Governor-General or where a doubt can be entertained,
or where an interpretation is possible.
(b) Where it is proposed to modify the supplementary rules and orders issued by the former
Governor-General under the authority which vested in him before 1st April 1937 regulating the
conditions of service of former Secretary of State officers serving in the State.
Explanation - All such cases shall be circulated to the Chief Minister before orders are issued.
78. The following instructions shall be followed in noting on cases in the Secretariat :-
(a) It shall always be assumed that the paper under consideration will be read by the officer to
whom it is submitted. Consequently no paraphrase shall be permitted in the notes. A precis of the
contents of a single paper shall be made only when it is of great length and complexity, and neither
such a precis nor a precis of the contents of the file or history of the case shall ordinarily be prepared
without the orders of an officer. When a file is submitted for orders, the proposals therein should,
wherever possible, be embodied in the form of a draft.
(b) In some cases perusal of the paper under consideration will be sufficient and nothing is
required beyond a brief suggestion for action. When a note is required it should be a statement of the
case showing, more or less in detail according to the importance and stage of the case, the question
for consideration, the circumstances leading up to it, the rules and the precedents bearing on it and
suggestions for action. The reproduction in a note of verbatim extracts from the paper under
consideration shall ordinarily be avoided.
(c) Where there are in a single case several points for orders which, in the opinion of the
Secretary or Under Secretary can be more conveniently dealt with separately than in a continuous
note, or a Minister directs by general or special order that such a course should be adopted in any
case class of cases submitted or to be submitted to him, each point shall be separately noted on the
Under Secretary and the Secretary noting after the officer note on each point, and space being left
after the Secretary's note in each cases for the Minister to note. While the notes on each point
should begin on a fresh sheet of paper, such separate notes may, if necessary, be preceded by notes
dealing with the subject as a whole and not with the individual points for orders, e.g., with matters of
principle.
(d) Not more than one note shall be submitted by the office on each case, or on each point for
orders where the notes are divided under clause (c) the Section officer of the branch or Section
rewriting or modifying Assistant's note if he cannot accept it. The Office-note may be similarly
treated by the first officer to whom the case is submitted if he thinks fit. If the Secretary or the Under
Secretary considers that the office note is incorrect or unduly prolix, he should correct it or modify it
and have it typewritten or printed as his own note.
(e) It is not the function of Assistants and Section Officers when noting, to offer opinion and
suggestions unless they are specifically founded on statute, rule or precedent, or are clear from the
nature of the case. Criticism and suggestion, beyond these limits are the functions of the officers of
the grade of Under Secretary and above of the Secretariat.
(f) Manuscript or type-written notes shall be on paper of metric size with one-fourth margin on
both sides of the paper. References shall be placed in the margin, and no note shall be written in the
margin in the Secretariat unless it is very brief.
(g) All notes written in a file which are not directly relevant to the subject-matter of the file should
be treated as routine notes, as for example, notes in connection with an officer's requisition for further
information from office.
79. When an intermediate reference is issued a definite time limit for receipt of replies should be
specified in the reference and on the expiration of that period the papers should be put up to the
Secretary concerned who should decide whether to wait for replies which were still due, to issue
further reminders or to proceed to disposal. Unless in any case it is specially necessary to wait for all
the replies, the papers should be disposed of without further delay, mention being made in order of
the officers who have failed to reply to the reference.
80.(1) Notes written in one department and sent to another shall not be communicated to an officer
outside the Secretariat without the consent of the department concerned.
(2) Notes written by a Minister or by the Governor shall not be communicated to any officer
outside the Secretariat without the permission of the Minister or the Governor, as the case may be.
Such permission will however, not be necessary where the notes are of a routine character and do not
contain an expression of opinion by the Minister or the Governor.
Explanation - This instruction shall not apply to documents (pending files or disposed of papers)
which a department of Secretariat has to furnish to the Accountant General for perusal and return with
reference to the instructions issued in G.O.Ms.No.433, Finance (Audit) Department, dated 15th
April 1976. According to these instructions all the papers and documents including note files and
those classified as "Secret" shall be produced to the Accountant-General as and when required in
connection with the performance of his duties and that the files and records (including note files)
which are confidential in nature shall be produced only when they are indented at the level of Senior
Deputy Accountant-General, so that secrecy involved could be safeguarded.
81.(i) The Governor, Chief Minister and the Ministers shall sign their names in full in orders and
notes and they shall form part of the record in the case.
(ii) All Officers of the rank of Section Officer and above shall sign their names in full in summarising
and circulation notes in the originating department to which the file belongs.
82. When an order is drafted as a result of a decision of the Council of Ministers in regard to a
matter which has not been subjected to inter-departmental circulation, the draft order shall be
circulated for acceptance to all the departments of the Secretariat concerned. If the matter is of
extreme urgency, the draft may be circulated after issue.
When work in such nature has to be done, it will be the duty of the Secretary concerned to bring to
notice the desirability of placing an officer on special duty.
84. Orders and Proceedings of Government shall be authenticated in the manner prescribed in
rules 11 and 12 of the Tamil Nadu Government Business Rules. Copies of such orders and
proceedings may be authenticated by the Section Officer in the department concerned as follows:-
A.B.C.
Secretary to Government.
(True copy/Extract).
Forwarded to X.Y.Z.
(By order)
D.E.F.
Section Officer.
The signature A.B.C. shall be printed or typewritten or copied, the signature D.E.F. being the
actual signature of the authenticating officer.
Explanations - (1) Copies of orders containing financial sanctions including orders delegating
financial powers to Heads of departments and subordinate officers under them and sanctions of
compassionate gratuities and of re-employment of retired officers, intended for communication to the
Accountant-General shall be signed by a Gazetted Officer of the rank of Under Secretaries and above
of the Administrative department issuing the sanction.
(2) Where the body of the Government order or Proceedings specifically refers to the Governor,
the expression "(By Order of the Governor)" need not be added at the end of the copy of the order.
(3) Copies of orders and proceedings of Government issued by the Secretariat Library may be
authenticated by the Librarian, Secretariat Library.
85. Communications addressed to the Reserve Bank of India authorizing the return of
securities or the purchase or sale of securities shall be signed by a Secretary to Government which
expression shall be deemed to include an Additional Secretary, Joint Secretary, Deputy Secretary
and Under Secretary to Government.
86. Circulation of papers to Ministers when they are on tour shall be in accordance with any
instruction which they may issue.
87. Notes on addresses to be presented to Governor, or on points, raised in interviews with him,
or prepared for his use in connection with any public speech, shall be submitted to him through the
Minister or Ministers concerned.
88. Members of deputations should understand that any discussions with officers or Members of
Government to which they may be parties are confidential and that no account of the discussions or of
the decisions arrived at should be published without the previous consent of the Government.
89. The following procedure shall be observed in referring any matter to the Tamil Nadu Public
Service Commission -
(1) All such references shall be addressed to the Secretary to the Commission by the
administrative department of the Secretariat concerned in the form of an official letter with which all
relevant papers or copies of papers should be forwarded.
(2) Secretariat note files should on no account form part of the records sent to the Commission.
(3) When the Commission has arrived at a conclusion, it will communicate its recommendation to
the department which referred the case.
(4) Where it is proposed not to accept the advice of the Commission for reasons not before the
Commission when its recommendation was made, the Commission will ordinarily be given a
reasonable opportunity of re-considering its opinion, and if necessary, of making a fresh
recommendation.
Explanation - Special care should be taken to ensure that, until the Commission's advice has
been obtained and a decision has been reached by the Government in the light of it, no language is
used in any communication issued in connection with the case which is capable of being interpreted
as implying that the Government have formed a settled opinion on the merits of any part of the case.
90. All correspondence by departments of the Secretariat with the Tamil Nadu Public Service
Commission (except on purely routine matters) shall be sent to the Personnel and Administrative
Reforms (Personnel) Department for perusal before issue. That department should see that the views
of Government communicated to the Commission from time to time are consistent with one another.
Any views not accepted by Personnel and Administrative Reforms (Personnel) Department should not
be communicated to the Commission without obtaining orders in circulation and without intimation to
the Personnel and Administrative Reforms (Personnel) Department.
91. In disciplinary matters in which the advice of the Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission is
to be sought, the following procedure will be adopted:-
As soon as the case is received in the department concerned it will be examined to see whether
the file is complete and in order, and whether the statutory provisions relating to disciplinary enquiries
have been complied with, but no officer below the rank of Under Secretary shall note on the merits
of the case. If the case is incomplete or defective or any point in the case appears to require further
elucidation, the Secretary will refer the case back to the head of the department for rectification of
the defects or further information. When all defects have been rectified and the case is prima facie in
order and complete, the Secretary of the department will refer it to the Commission. As soon as the
case is received back from the Commission with its advice, the Secretary will ordinarily circulate
the case for orders without further noting. If, however, there appears to the Secretary to be good and
sufficient reasons to differ on any point from the advice of the Commission, it will be open to him
to submit a note giving those reasons. No officer below the rank of Secretary or Additional Secretary,
or Deputy Secretary shall be permitted to comment on the advice tendered by the Commission. But
the reference of any, in regard to the Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission, shall issue only on
approval by Secretary or Additional Secretary concerned. If a case is one arising out of financial
irregularities, it shall be sent to the Finance Department, both before making a reference to the
Commission and also after the recommendation of the commission has been received.
92. No department of the Secretariat shall consult the Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission
on any point on which such consultation is not necessary under any statutory provision or under the
Conventions adopted by the Government in their relations with the Commission except when orders
to that effect are taken in circulation after the Personnel and Administrative Reforms (Personnel)
Department has seen the case.
93. Whenever the need arises for the making of an appointment or class of appointments
otherwise than in consultation with the Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission, the normal procedure
should be that laid down in the latter part of regulation 16(b) of the Tamil Nadu Public Service
Commission Regulations, 1954. If, in any case, there is a difference of opinion between a department
and the Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission as to the expediency of excluding a particular
appointment or class of appointments from the purview of the Commission the question should be
considered whether a regulation may be issued under Article 320 (3) of the Constitution for giving
effect to the exclusion. If it is considered that such regulation should be issued, the department
concerned should when submitting the case to the Governor through the Minister concerned and the
Chief Minister for orders, state clearly the particular circumstances which justify exclusion of the
appointment or class of appointments from the purview of the Commission and the objections
raised by the Commission to such exclusion. If the Governor orders that a regulation should be
issued, the case should be sent to the Personnel and Administrative Reforms (Personnel) Depart
ment for the issue of the necessary regulation.
94. When a petition from a person, who is or was in the service of Government, for review by
Government in original orders passed by them or of orders passed by them in exercise of their
appellate powers in respect of a matter affecting him as a Government servant is received in the
Secretariat, the Secretary in the department administrative concerned shall after obtaining the advice
of the Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission thereon forward it to the Chief Minister through
Minister or Ministers concerned. In doing so, the Secretary in the department concerned shall point
out whether or not the petition complies with the rules and orders governing the submission of such
petitions (See Appendix III), and if the petition complies with such rules and orders, shall furnish a
statement setting out briefly and accurately the facts and history of the case with comments on the
merits thereof. The Personal file of the petitioner shall also be put up. It should be examined in the
department administratively concerned in consultation with the Personnel and Administrative
Reforms (Personnel) department, if the case involves interpretation or application of any of service
rules or orders and with the Finance Department if it involves any financial issue, and the note
shall be submitted to the Chief Minister through the Minister or Ministers concerned. If the Chief
Minister desires to have the advice of the Tribunal for Disciplinary Proceedings on the petition, the
Secretary in the department administratively concerned shall obtain the remarks of the Tribunal and
forward them to the Chief Minister through the Minister or Ministers concerned.
95.(a) If, in any case, it is proposed to reject or to deviate from the advice of the Tamil Nadu
Public Service Commission on grounds which were not before the Commission, when it made its
recommendation the Commission shall, if possible, be given a reasonable opportunity of considering
those ground and making a fresh recommendation before orders are issued.
(b) In any case in which the advice tendered by the Commission is rejected or deviated from, the
administrative department concerned shall communicate the reasons for such rejection or deviation of
the Commission.
(c) Where it is proposed to reject or to deviate from the advice of the Tamil Nadu Public Service
Commission the file shall be sent to the Personnel and Administrative Reforms (Personnel)
Department before circulation.
96. Before orders are issued amending the Governor's Regulations issued under Article 318 of
the Constitution of India or the rules regulation the procedure to be observed by the Tamil Nadu
Public Service Commission and the relations of the Commission with the Government and
subordinate authorities, the Chairman of the Commission shall, unless the amendment is in
accordance with recommendations made by the Commission, be informed demi-officially of the orders
proposed to be issued to enable him, if the Commission, thinks fit, to lay the Commission's views
personally before the Chief Minister.
97. Copies of orders in the following cases shall be sent to the Tamil Nadu Public Service
Commission by the administrative department of the Secretariat concerned:-
(a) Orders of appointment of candidates selected in consultation with the Commission; and
(b) final orders in disciplinary and other matter in respect of which the Commission was consulted.
98. Copy of all confidential circulars issued to Collectors of districts, whether by telegram, demi-
official letter, letter official memorandum or Proceedings of Government shall invariably be
communicated to the Board of Revenue for the information of the Members of the Board.
99. A copy of every Administration Report shall be sent to the Chief Secretary before publication.
100.(i) Before orders are issued in any department negativing or materially modifying the
recommendations of the Head of a department or the Chief Executive of a Government undertaking in
any matter of importance, the Head of the department or the Chief Executive of the Government
Undertaking as the case may be shall, unless the matter is of extreme urgency, be informed
unofficially of the proposed order to enable him, if he thinks fit, to lay his views personally before
the Minister-in-charge or the Chief Minister provided that he shall inform the Minister if he intends to
lay his views personally before the Chief Minister.
(ii) The following are the heads of departments to whom this instructions shall apply :-
101. The ordinary channel of communication between the Government and a subordinate
authority shall be through the Head of the department concerned.
102. It shall be the duty of a Secretary to Government to see that all cases sent in circulation by
him are promptly returned to his department.
103. Secretaries to Government shall bring to the notice of the Chief Secretary every case of
breach of statutory rules which on discovery was not rectified immediately. The Chief Secretary shall
bring such cases to the notice of the Governor.
104. The Governor acting on the advice of his Ministers may, from time to time if he thinks fit,
permit any departure from these instructions.
105. If any doubt arise as to the interpretation of these instructions it shall be referred to the Chief
Minister whose decision shall be final.
APPENDIX I
(2) "Petition" includes memorials, letters and applications of the nature of petitions.
II. Scope of Instructions - (1) Save as here in after Provided these instructions shall apply, so far
as may be, to all petitions address to the Government.
(a) petitions which are appeals preferred by persons holding posts under the administrative control
of Government under the rules governing conditions of their service or under the Constitution of India;
(b) petitions relating to Bills pending before the State Legislature; such petitions are governed by
the Standing Orders of the Legislature;
(c) petitions submitted by, or on behalf of convicts under sentence of death; and
(d) petitions from persons who are or were in the service of Government for review by
Government of original orders passed by Government or of orders passed by them in exercise of their
appellate powers, in respect of matters affecting them as Government servants; such petitions are
governed by the special instructions issued by the Governor in that behalf.
(3) They shall not affect any rules or orders in respect of representations submitted by recognized
associations of Government servants.
(2) Every petition shall be authenticated by the signature of the petitioner, or when the petitioners
are numerous by the signature of one or more of them.
(a) contain all material statements and arguments relied upon by the petitioner;
(c) if any recorded order of a public authority is complained against, be accompanied by a copy of
the order and by a copy of any order in the case passed by a subordinate authority together with a
copy of the petition to such authority; and
V. Any person having cause of complaint against the Government shall, in the first instance, seek
redress from the local authority who, if unable to grant the redress sought, shall pass an order in
writing to that effect. If dissatisfied with this decision, the petitioner shall be at liberty to address the
Board of Revenue, Court or other superior authority by which the local authority is controlled; or he
may address the Government in cases wherein there is no such controlling authority.
Communication intended for the Government shall be addressed to "the Government of Tamil
Nadu" or, to a "Secretary to the Government of Tamil Nadu". A communication addressed to the
Governor or to a Minister is not addressed to the Government and does not come within the
cognizance of the Government unless the Governor, or the Minister sees fit to send it to a Secretary
to Government.
VI. The Government will not receive a petition on any matter, unless it shall appear that the
petitioner has first applied to the local authority and also to the Board of Revenue or other controlling
authority, where such exists.
VII. In order to enable the Government to enforce the foregoing rules without injustice or
hardship to complaining parties, all heads of offices shall understand that a party affected by an order
is entitled to have on application, a copy of such order, which in all cases except those where no
appeal lies shall contain a statement of the grounds of the decision. This shall be furnished to him on
plain paper and without payment.
VIII. The Government will receive petitions only from the principals, communications running in
the name of a pleader or agent will receive no attention. Ordinarily, anonymous petitions will be totally
disregarded. But if specific allegations of misconduct against a Government servant are contained in
any anonymous petition, the Government may take such action thereon as they deem fit.
IX. Resolutions submitted by associations and other similar bodies will receive no attention; and
such body wishing action to be taken on its representations should submit them in the form of a
petition stating the grounds and circumstances of each case.
XI. Every Government servant wishing to petition the Government shall do so separately:
(i) to a joint representation on one and same subject signed by several Government servants; and
(ii) to representations submitted by recognised associations of Government servants in accordance
with such rules as may, from time to time, be prescribed by the Government.
XII. Every person in civil employment and every person who has been in civil employment shall,
if he desires to petition the Government in respect of such employment, or in respect of the
termination of such employment, submit a separate petition on his own behalf.
XIII. Every petition from a person who is or was serving in a post under the administrative control
of Government shall be addressed to a Secretary to Government and be submitted through the Head
of the office or department to which he belongs or belonged.
XIV. The head of the Office or department shall, unless empowered under Instructions XX, XXI
or XXII to return or withhold it, at once forward the petition to the Secretary to Government in the
department concerned through the ordinary official channel and may make such remarks as he
may consider necessary in regard to the accuracy of the statements made and inferences drawn
in the petition; he shall also forward such records, not submitted by the petitioner as should properly
be consulted in order to the due disposal of the petition.
XV. Petitions from the Carnatic stipendiaries, or on the subject of Carnatic Stipends, shall be
submitted through the Paymaster, Carnatic Stipends.
XVI. Petitions from political pensioners other than Carnatic stipendiaries and from
Kandyan pensioners or on the subject of Political pensions other than Carnatic shall be submitted
through the Collector of the District,in which the petitioners reside.
XVII. Petitions addressed to Government will be liable to summary rejection in the following
cases:-
(1) When the petitioner has not complied in full with the above instructions;
(2) when a petition is illegible or unintelligible or contains language, which in the opinion of
the Government is disloyal, disrespectful or improper;
(3) when a previous petition has been disposed of by the Government of Tamil Nadu or the
Government of India and the petition discloses no new facts or circumstances which afford grounds
for a reconsideration of the case;
(4) when the petition is a mere application for relief, pecuniary or other, which is -
(a) an application for employment in posts under the administrative control of Government not
made in pursuance of any rule or announcement regarding applications for such employment; or
(b) a request for exemption from the provisions of any law or rule prescribing the qualifications
to be possessed by persons serving in posts under the administrative control of Government or by
persons engaging in any profession or employment;
(6) when the petition is an appeal from a judicial decision unless such petition -
(a) is an appeal from a judicial decision in a case in which the Government have reserved any
discretion of interference;
(b) is an appeal from a judicial decision in a suit to which the Government were a party; or
(c) is a prayer for the suspension or remission of a sentence under Chapter XXXII of the Code of
Criminal Procedure, 1973 (Central Act II of 1974).
(7) when the petition is a representation against a decision which is declared to be final by any law
or statutory rule;
(8) when the law provides a different or specific remedy in respect of the subject-matter of the
petition whether or not any period of limitation prescribed for the prosecution of such remedy has
expires;
(9) when the petition is submitted otherwise than in accordance with any rule, order or contract
such as is referred to in sub-clause (a) of clause (14), by a person serving in a post under the
administrative control of the Government with regard to his prospective claim to pension;
(10) when a petition is an appeal against a failure by the Government to exercise a discretion
vested in them by law or rule;
(11) when the action desired in a petition is in the nature of a favour and not of a right;
(b) appointed, otherwise than under contract to hold a temporary appointment, on the expiration of
the period of such appointment; or
(c) engaged under contract in accordance with the terms of such contract;
(b) passed by any authority in the exercise of appellate or revisional powers conferred by any rule,
order or contract such as is referred to in sub-clause (a); or
(c) from which, not being an order of punishment passed by the Government, an appeal is
expressly barred by any rule, order or contract such as is referred to in sub-clause (a);
(15) when the petition is a representation relating to an order of the Government refusing to grant
or to recommend -
(c) any pecuniary or other concession to which the petitioner is not entitled under any law or
statutory rule;
(16) when the petition is a representation with regard to any matter connected with the official
prospects of position of a person serving in a post under the administrative control of the Government
and is not submitted by such person;
(17) when the petition relates to a subject on which the Government are competent to pass orders,
and no application for redress has been made by the petitioner to the Government;
(18) When the petition is a representation against the action of a private individual or of a body of
private individuals regarding the private relations of the petitioner and such individual or body; and
(19) When the petition, not being a petition such as is referred to in the exceptions in clause (6),
relates to matters in which the petitioner has no direct personal interest.
XVIII. (a) The Government will, when a petition is rejected under Instruction XVII, inform the
petitioner of the rejection and the reasons therefor.
(b) The Government will, when a petition is rejected for reasons other than those specified in
Instructions XVII inform the petitioner of its rejection and also the reasons therefor, unless for some
reasons to be recorded in writing the Government consider that it is not desirable to communicate
the reason to the petitioner.
XIX. Where a petition has already been rejected under Instruction XVII and a further petition on
the same subject is submitted which does not contain facts not already brought to notice, such further
petition will be disregarded.
XXI. The same authorities are vested with discretionary power to withhold petitions addressed to
the Government and forwarded through them in the following cases:-
(a) when a petition is an application for pecuniary assistance by a person manifestly possessing no
claim;
(b) when a petition relates to a subject or which those authorities are themselves competent to
pass orders, and no previous application for redress has been made to them.
Provided that -
(i) the Government may call for a report on any matter affecting a Government servant if they have
reason to believe that there is a genuine grievance to be redressed;
(ii) the Head of a Department may address the Government on any matter affecting a Government
servant if he has reason to believe that in a petition addressed to the Government there is a genuine
grievance to be redressed.
(iii) Members of the Constabulary (Police Constables and Head Constables) shall be eligible to
make one representation to Government against orders of dismissal after exhausting the right of
appeal. This representation (Petition or memorial) shall not be withheld by any authority.
XXIII. An authority withholding a petition under instruction XXI or XXII shall inform the petitioner of
the withholding and the reason therefor.
APPENDIX II
The Government of India in the Ministry of Home Affairs require at the earliest possible time
information on the following topics unless they are minor occurrences:-
(1) Riots which involve a serious breach of the public peace;
(4) Calamities, such as floods or earthquakes, which cause serious damage to life or property.
Collectors are required to report immediately to the Chief Secretary to Government, Public
Department, by telegram or by radio message, the occurrence in their districts of any events of the
foregoing description. Until the situation becomes normal, they should send daily telegraphic reports
of further developments. The telegraphic reports should invariably be followed by detailed reports in
duplicate on the subject.
As now telephonic facilities are easily available, the Collectors, besides sending such reports,
should in such cases, immediately contact Chief Secretary or (in the event of his not being readily
available on the phone) the Deputy Secretary to Government, Public Department or Under
Secretary to Government, Public Department as the case may be and inform him about the
occurrence of such incidents. The calls may be booked as "Immediate" calls in really serious cases
and "urgent" calls in other cases.
In cases where troops are used in aid of civil power to suppress disturbances, the telegraphic
report should include information on the following points:-
(5) Casualties.
Explanation - Any rioting which involves the use of firearms or any communal riot which involves
the death of a person will be recorded as a serious breach of the public peace. In the latter case and
in the case of other riots not involving the use of firearms, Collectors should exercise their discretion in
deciding whether the riot was a serious one or not for purposes of these instructions.
2. Collectors are also required to furnish the earliest possible information on the following further
topics:-
(i) All collisions between non-Indians and Indians excluding alleged assaults of any kind regarding
which there is no confirmation or assaults of a positively insignificant character;
(iii) all other events which have a political or administrative importance and all unusual happenings.
Explanation - In the cases of item (ii), viz, grain riot, the report should be by telegram irrespective
of the fact whether the riot was serious or not.
3. The Commissioner of Police will report such occurrences in the Madras City.
4. It should be understood that the telegraphic and written reports which the Collectors and the
commissioner of Police send to the Chief Secretary to Government with reference to the instructions
in the foregoing paragraphs are primarily intended to enable the Government to furnish the
government of India with the information required by them. If it becomes necessary to follow up the
report with further correspondence on the subject such correspondence should be addressed to the
Secretary to Government in the department directly concerned.
Collectors and the Commissioner of Police should repeat to the Secretary to the Governor, the
telegraphic and written reports which they send to the Government, in all cases of (i) riots, Communal
or otherwise; (ii) serious disturbances of the public peace; (iii) outrages of any kind; (iv) use of
troops in aid of the civil power or (v) natural Calamities.
5. As the Military authorities are interested in all cases which come under the head "outrages
which have a political aspect", the Collector or the Commissioner of Police will report such occurrence
at places where troops are stationed, to the Officer Commanding the Station, or at places where
there are no troops to the General Officer Commanding, Head quarters, Tamil Nadu Area. The
detailed report to the Government need not however be communicated to the Local Military authorities
unless their co-operation is sought. If, in any case, it is considered necessary to communicate
further details to the Military authorities this communication will be made by the Government in the
Public Department to the General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Southern Command, Poona.
6. Collectors and the Commissioner of Police should also see that Officer Commanding the
nearest Military station is kept closely informed of the communal situation existing in or near their
stations or any other matter which might lead to troops being called out in aid of the civil power.
7. If the first report from a Collector or the Commissioner of Police, Madras, on any of the
subjects mentioned in paragraphs 1 and 2 above is received in any department of the Secretariat
other than the Public Department, the Secretary of the Department shall send the report or a copy of
it immediately to the Chief Secretary in the Public Department. Any special remedial action which
may be called for must however be considered by the Department directly concerned.
8. As soon as the first report on any of the subjects mentioned in paragraphs 1 and 2 is received
in the Public Department, the Chief Secretary -
(a) will at once report the event, if it is of the nature described in paragraph 1 to the government
of India by telegram, indicating at the same time the Secretary of the State Government to whom all
future references on the subject should be made in cases of floods, the telegram will be repeated to
the Ministry of Irrigation and Power, New Delhi and also to the Central Water and Power Commission
(Flood Wing), New Delhi;
(b) will inform the Minister or Ministers concerned of the report received; and
(c) will send the report to the department or departments of the Secretariat concerned which
should keep the Chief Secretary informed from time to time of any important development.
With a view to avoid possible delay and to ensure the personal attention of the Secretary
concerned, the Chief Secretary will pass on the preliminary report as required by clause (c) above,
with a special slip as follows:-
Special - This report has been communicated to the Government of India, and to the Minister
(or Ministers) concerned and is now transmitted to the Secretary of the Department for personal
attention, with reference to G.O.No.3340, Public (General), dated 3rd November 1955.
Explanation - Daily telegraphic reports, if any received subsequent to the first report, will also be
dealt with similarly.
9. In cases of serious riots, raids, affrays, outbreaks do other events of sufficient importance to
justify special reports the telegraphic reports made to the Government of India should also be
invariably repeated in cypher if necessary to the Chief of Staff Army, New Delhi.
10. If the State Government do not consider that the matter is of a serious character, no further
report to the Government of India need be sent and the telegraphic report should be closed with the
word, "no further report seems necessary". In all other cases of the kind which call for orders from
the State Government, the preliminary report should be followed by an official report from the
Secretary of the Department directly concerned intimating the State Government's decision and
communicating the orders passed as soon as the State Government have been able to review the
facts of the case and arrive at a conclusion. If latter reports of district officers reveal that the case is of
a trifling character this fact should be intimated to the Government of India by the departments
directly concerned.
11. Four copies of all reports (excluding telegrams from the State Government) regarding
communal disturbances should be forwarded to the Government of India.
APPENDIX III
I.(1) Heads of Department may, save as provided in Instruction II withhold any petition for review
by Government -
(i) If the petitioner has not availed himself of the remedies provided by rules or orders applicable to
the case; or
(ii) If the petition was not submitted within two months from the date on which the final order
passed by Government under the rules or orders applicable to the case was communicated to the
petitioner; or
Provided that in respect of petitions for review by Government of orders passed before the 7th
September 1964; the time limit, shall be six months; or
(iii) If the petition relates to a matter, which has already been reviewed by Government; or
(iv) If the petition relates to a case where an original order or an order on statutory appeal has not
been passed by Government; or
(v) If the petition is illegible or unintelligible or contains any matter which is disloyal, disrespectful or
improper.
(2) Orders passed by Government on a statutory appeal shall not be treated as review by
Government for purpose of sub-clause (iii) of clause (1).
(3) An authority withholding a petition for review by Government under this instruction shall inform
the petitioner of the fact of withholding the petition and the reason therefor.
II. Petitions for review by Government from persons who are or were gazetted officers or from
non-gazetted Government Servants in cases where an original order or an order on a statutory appeal
was passed by Government shall not be withheld by any authority.
III. Every petition referred to in Instruction II shall be submitted through the Head of the Office or
department to which the petitioner belongs or belonged, to the Secretary to Government in the
administrative department concerned.
APPENDIX IV
II. No Government, and no Member of a Government should in any circumstances give publicity to
a document which might seem to reflect upon a superior authority without first obtaining the latter's
consent, and no assistance must ever be given to the Press in formulating adverse comments upon
the orders or actions of a superior authority.
III. In personal cases which have formed the subject of correspondence between the State
Government and the Government of India the deciding authority should in every case clearly indicate
(a) whether only the substance of the decisions should be communicated to the officer concerned or
(b) whether in addition a statement of the grounds upon, which it is based or portions of the
correspondence, and, if so which portions, should be similarly, communicated.
IV. Communications from the Government of India, or issued to the Government of India, should
in no case be made public either in the actual form in which they were issued or in the form of an
abstract, without the sanction of the Government of India, unless in the case of communications from
the Government of India, they have been marked for distribution to the Press or have been already
published in the Gazette of India.
Explanation - The restrictions imposed in the rule above are not intended to apply to departmental
administration reports which may be communicated to the Press as soon as they are issued or after
they have been reviewed by the State Government.
APPENDIX V
PART I
Preliminary
(i) "State Government" means, in relation to any Part C State and the Andaman and Nicobar
Islands, the, Chief Commissioner.
(ii) "Memorial" means a memorial praying for pardon addressed to the President and includes
petitions, letters and applications of the nature of memorials.
(iii) "Petition" means a petition praying for pardon addressed to the President and includes
memorials, letters and applications of the nature of petitions.
(iv) "Pardon" means the grant, to any offender convicted in the exercise of its criminal jurisdiction
by any Court in India and sentenced to punishment other than death, of a pardon either free or on
conditions, and includes a respite, reprieve or remission or punishment.
PART II
2. Form of memorial or petition - (i) A memorial or petition may be either in manuscript or in print.
(ii) Every memorial or petition shall be authenticated by the signature of the memorialist or the
petitioner or, when the memorialist or petitioners are numerous by the signatures of one or more of
them.
(iii) Every memorial or petition, and the documents accompanying it, shall if possible, be in English.
(i) contain all material statements and arguments relied upon by the memorialist or petitioner;
4. Method of submission - Every memorial or petition shall be submitted through the State
Government and shall be accompanied by a letter requesting the Chief Secretary to the State
Government to transmit the memorial or petition to the President.
PART III
5. Circumstances in which memorials or petitions may be withheld by the State Government - The
State Government may withhold a memorial or petition when -
(i) the memorialist or petitioner has not complied in full with the provisions of Part II of these
instructions;
(ii) the memorial or petition is illegible or unintelligible, or contains language which is, in the opinion
of the State Government disloyal, disrespectful or improper;
(iii) a previous memorial or petition from the memorialist or petitioner on the same subject has
been disposed of by the President, and the memorial or petition in the opinion of the State
Government discloses no new facts or circumstances which afford grounds for a reconsideration of
the subject; or
(iv) the memorial or petition contains a prays concerning a sentence of punishment (not being
sentence of death) for an offence in relation to a matter to which the executive power of the Central
Government does not extend.
7. List of memorials or petitions withheld - The State Government shall send a quarterly return to
the secretary to the Government of India in the Ministry of Home Affairs specifying the brief details of
all memorials or petitions held under instructions 5 and the reasons for withholding them.
PART IV
8. Procedure for transmission - (i) The State Government shall transmit to the Secretary to the
Government of India in the Ministry of Home Affairs all memorials or petitions not withheld under
instructions 5 together with a concise statement of facts relevant thereto and an expression of the
opinion of the State Government on the grounds urged in the memorial or petition.
(ii) Where the memorial, petition or any document accompanying them is not in English, the State
Government shall, when transmitting it under this instruction, also forward an English translation
thereof duly authenticated under the authority of the State Government.