Pakistan Bar Council Employees Service Rules — section 3

3. In these Rules unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions shall have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them that is to say:

(a)"Act" means the Legal Practitioners and Bar Councils Act, 1973 (Act XXXV of 1973).

(b)"Appointing Authority" means the Executive Committee in relation to posts upto BS 16 and the Bar Council in relation to posts of BS 17 and above.

(c)"Accused" means an employee of the Bar Council against whom action is taken under these rules.

(d)"Appendix" means the appendix to these Rules.

(e)"Bar Council" means the Pakistan Bar Council.

(f)"Benefit" means and includes salaries and other emoluments/benefits, which the employee is entitled to receive for rendering satisfactory services to the Bar Council.

(g)"Competent Authority" means the appointing authority.

(h)"Chairman" means Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Pakistan Bar Council.

(i)"Executive Committee" means the Executive Committee of the Pakistan Bar Council.

(j)"Employee" means an employee of the Pakistan Bar Council.

(k)"Finance Committee" means the Finance Committee of the Pakistan Bar Council.

(l)"Legal Heirs" means any person nominated by the employee during his life time for the purpose of receipt of benefits from Bar Council and in other cases, the legal heirs as determined by a competent Court of law.

(m)"Misconduct" means conduct prejudicial to good order or service discipline or contrary to Pakistan Bar Council Employees Service Rules or unbecoming of an officer and a gentleman and includes any act on the part of any employee to bring or attempt to bring political or other outside influence directly or indirectly to bear on the Bar Council or its officers in respect of any matter relating to appointment, promotion, punishment, retirement or other conditions of service of any employee.

(n)"Prescribed" means as prescribed by these Rules.

(o)"Rules" means the Pakistan Legal Practitioners & Bar Council Rules, 1976 and the Pakistan Bar Council Employees Services Rules, 2009.

(p)"Vice-Chairman" means Vice-Chairman of the Pakistan Bar Council.

(q)Terms not defined shall have the meanings assigned to them under the Act and the Rules. Employment with the Bar Council: 4(1). All the employees of the Bar Council shall be whole time employees and no employee can refuse to perform duties after office hours. However, if an employee works and performs his duties after office hours he may be granted such over time as may be decided from time to time by the Bar Council.

(2)The employees of the Bar Council shall perform such duties as may be assigned to them from time to time by the Bar Council or the Executive Committee. Office Timing: