An Act to provide for the adjudication or trial by Administrative Tribunals of disputes and complaints with respect to recruitment and conditions of service of persons appointed to public services and posts in connection with the affairs of the Union or of any State or of any local or other authority within the territory of India or under the control of the Government of India or of any corporation or society owned or controlled by the Government in pursuance of article 323A of the Constitution and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
The Administrative Tribunals Act, 1985 has 41 sections in 5 chapters, amended 7 times. Each link below opens the official text of that section. Official PDF on India Code.
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Chapter I: PRELIMINARY
- Section 1 – Short title, extent and commencement
- Section 2 – Act not to apply to certain persons
- Section 3 – Definitions
Chapter II: ESTABLISHMENT OF TRIBUNALS AND BENCHES THEREOF
- Section 4 – Establishment of Administrative Tribunals
- Section 5 – Composition of Tribunals and Benches thereof
- Section 6 – Qualifications for appointment as Chairman, Vice-Chairman and other Members
- Section 7 – Vice-Chairman to act as Chairman or to discharge his functions in certain circumstances
- Section 8 – Term of office
- Section 9 – Resignation and removal
- Section 10 – Salaries and allowances and other terms and conditions of service of Chairman, and other Members
- Section 10A – Saving terms and conditions of service of Vice-Chairman
- Section 10B – Qualifications, terms and conditions of service of Chairman and Member
- Section 11 – Provision as to the holding of offices by Chairman, etc., on ceasing to be such Chairman, etc
- Section 12 – Financial and administrative powers of the Chairman
- Section 13 – Staff of the Tribunal
Chapter III: JURISDICTION, POWERS AND AUTHORITY OF TRIBUNALS
- Section 14 – Jurisdiction, powers and authority of the Central Administrative Tribunal
- Section 15 – Jurisdiction, powers and authority of State Administrative Tribunals
- Section 16 – Jurisdiction, powers and authority of a Joint Administrative Tribunal
- Section 17 – Power to punish for contempt
- Section 18 – Distribution of business amongst the Benches
Chapter IV: PROCEDURE
- Section 19 – Applications to tribunals
- Section 20 – Applications not to be admitted unless other remedies exhausted
- Section 21 – Limitation
- Section 22 – Procedure and powers of Tribunals
- Section 23 – Right of applicant to take assistance of legal practitioner and of Government, etc., to appoint presenting officers
- Section 24 – Conditions as to making of interim orders
- Section 25 – Power of Chairman to transfer cases from one Bench to another
- Section 26 – Decision to be by majority
- Section 27 – Execution of orders of a Tribunal
Chapter V: MISCELLANEOUS
- Section 28 – Exclusion of jurisdiction of courts except the Supreme Court under article 136 of the Constitution
- Section 29 – Transfer of pending cases
- Section 29A – Provision for filing of certain appeals
- Section 30 – Proceedings before a Tribunal to be judicial proceedings
- Section 31 – Members and staff of Tribunal to be public servants
- Section 32 – Protection of action taken in good faith
- Section 33 – Act to have overriding effect
- Section 34 – Power to remove difficulties
- Section 35 – Power of the Central Government to make rules
- Section 36 – Power of the appropriate Government to make rules
- Section 36A – Power to make rules retrospectively
- Section 37 – Laying of rules