Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act: RBE No.91/2016 – Declarations of Assets
No.E(D&A)2014 GS1-2, dated 29.07.2016
Sub: The Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act, 2013 – Submission of declarations of assets and liabilities by the Railway Servant.
1. Attention is invited to Ministry of Railway’s letter of even number dated 12.4.2016 (RBE No. 34/2016), whereby Department of Personnel and Training’s notification No.G.S.R.414(E), dated 11.4.2016 was circulated, extending the last date for filing the returns under the Public Servants (Furnishing of Information and Assets and Liabilities and the Limits for Exemption of Assets in Filing Returns) Amendment Rules, 2014, from 15.4.2015 to 31.7.2016.
2. In this regard, the Department of Personnel and Training has amended the aforesaid rules to extend the last date for filing of returns to 31.12.2016, vide their notification No.G.S.R.747(E), dated 29.07.2016. A copy of the aforesaid notification is enclosed.
3. Railways etc. may ensure that all officers and staff in their organization file the said declarations/ returns in the prescribed proforma within the revised time limits.
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions
Department of Personnel and Training
NOTIFICATION
dated 29.07.2016
G.S.R.747(E) – In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) read with clause (k) and clause (m) of sub-section (2) of section 59 read with section 44 of the Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act, 2013 (1 of 2014), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Public Servants (Furnishing of Information and Annual Return of Assets and Liabilities and the Limits for Exemption of Assets in Filing Returns) Rules, 2014, namely:-
1. (1) These rules may be called the Public Servants (Furnishing of Information and Annual Return of Assets and Liabilities and the Limits for Exemption of Assets in Filing Returns) Second Amendment Rules, 2016.
(2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.
2. In the Public Servants (Furnishing of Information and Annual Return of Assets and Liabilities and the Limits for Exemption of Assets in Filing Returns) Rules, 2014, in rule 3, in sub-rule (2).
(a) in the first proviso, for the words and figures “on or before the 31st day of July, 2016” the words and figures “on or before the 31st day of December, 2016” shall be substituted.
(b) in the second proviso, for the words and figures, “on or before the 31st day of July, 2016”, the words and figures “on or before the 31st day of December, 2016” shall be substituted.
(c) after the second proviso, the following proviso shall be inserted, namely:-
“Provided also that the public servants who have filed declarations, information and annual returns of property under the provisions of the rules applicable to such public servants, shall file the revised declarations, information or as the case may be, annual returns as on the 31st day of March, 2016, to the competent authority on or before the 31st day of December, 2016.”
[F.No.407/16/2016-AVD-IV(LP)]
Note: The principal rules were published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, vide notification number G.S.R. 501(E), dated 14th July, 2014 subsequently amended vide notification number G.S.R. 638(E), dated the 8th September, 2014, G.S.R. 918(E), dated the 26th December, 2014, G.S.R. 322(E), dated the 27th April, 2015, G.S.R. 536(E), dated the 3rd July, 2015 , G.S.R. 776(E), dated the 12th October, 2015 and G.S.R. 414(E), dated the 11th April,2016.
Download Railway Board Circular RBE No. 91/2016
Forward reference ⇒ RBE No.160/2016,