ACT NO. II OF 2021
PAKISTAN INSTITUTE FOR PARLIAMENTARY SERVICES (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2021
An Act further to amend the Pakistan Institute for Parliamentary Services Act, 2008
[Gazette of Pakistan, Extraordinary, Part-I, 24th February, 2021]
No. F. 23(108)/2020-Legis., dated 22.2.2021.–The following Act of Majlis-e-Shoora (Parliament) received the assent of the President on the 18th February, 2021 is hereby published for general information:–
WHEREAS it is expedient further to amend the Pakistan Institute for Parliamentary Services Act, 2008 (III of 2008), for the purposes hereinafter appearing;
It is hereby enacted as follows:
1. Short title and commencement.–(1) This Act may be called the Pakistan Institute for Parliamentary Services (Amendment) Act, 2021.
(2) It shall come into force at once.
2. Amendment of Section 15, Act III of 2008.–In the Pakistan Institute for Parliamentary Services Act, 2008 (III of 2008), in Section 15,–
(a) for the marginal heading “Appointments of employees”, the marginal heading “Appointment of employees and conditions of service” shall be substituted;
(b) after sub-section (3), the following new sub-Sections shall be added, namely:-
“(4) The terms and conditions of service of any person to whom this Act applies shall not be varied to his disadvantage.
(5) Subject to the provision of this Act and rules made thereunder, the employees of the Institute shall be entitled to such perks, entitlements, memberships, facilities, including but not limited to housing and all other schemes of the Government, as admissible or enjoyed or admissible to the employees of the Senate and National Assembly Secretariats in the corresponding equivalent scales, notwithstanding any judgment or order of any Court, tribunal or a quasi-judicial authority.”
