11Provisions in respect of officers and other employees of Council and Society

(1) (a) Every officer or other employee of the Council serving in its employment immediately before the appointed day shall, in so far as such officer or other employee is employed in connection with the Council which has vested in the Board by virtue of this Act, becomes, as from the appointed day, an officer, or, as the case may be, other employee of the Board.

(b) Every officer or other employee of the Society serving in its employment immediately before the appointed day shall, in so far as such officer or other employee is employed in connection with the Society which has vested in the Board by virtue of this Act, becomes, as from the appointed day, an officer, or, as the case may be, other employee of the Board.

(2) Every officer or other employee of the Council or the Society who becomes an officer, or as the case may be, other employee of the Board, as referred to in sub-section (1), shall hold his office or service therein by the same tenure, at the same remuneration, upon the same terms and conditions, with the same obligations and rights and privileges as to leave, insurance, superannuation scheme, provident fund, other funds, retirement, pension, gratuity and other benefits as he would have held under the Council, or, as the case may be, the Society, if it had not vested in the Board and shall continue to do so as an officer or other employee, as the case may be, of the Board, or until the expiry of a period of one year from the appointed day if such officer or other employee opts not to be the officer or other employee of the Board within such period:

Provided that if the Board thinks it expedient to extend the period so fixed, it may extend the same up to a maximum period of one year.

(3) Where an officer or other employee of the Council or the Society opts under sub-section (2) not to be in the employment or service of the Board in which the Council and the Society have vested, such officer or other employee shall be deemed to have resigned from the respective cadre.

(4) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947(14 of 1947) or in any other law for the time being in force, the transfer of the services of any officer or other employee of the Council or the Society to the Board shall not entitle such officer or other employee to any compensation under this Act or any other law for the time being in force and no such claim shall be entertained by any court, tribunal or other authority.

(5) The officers and other employees who have retired before the appointed day from the service of the Council or the Society and are entitled to any benefits, rights or privileges shall be entitled to receive the same benefits, rights or privileges from the Board in which the Council and the Society have vested.

(6) The trusts of the Provident Fund and Group Insurance and Superannuation Scheme of the Council or the Society for the welfare of officers or employees would continue to discharge their functions in the Board as was being done hitherto in the Council or the Society and tax exemption granted to Provident Fund or Group Insurance and Superannuation Scheme would continue to be applied to the Board.

(7) After the expiry of the period of one year, or the extended period, as referred to in sub-section (2), all the officers and other employees transferred and appointed to the Board, other than those opting not to be the officers or employees of the Board within such period, shall be governed by the rules and regulations made by the Board in respect of the service conditions of the officers and other employees of the said Board.