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FEDERAL LEVIES FORCE (SERVICE) RULES, 2010

FEDERAL LEVIES FORCE (SERVICE) RULES, 2010

Federal Levies Force Regulation 2010
[Gazette of Pakistan, Extraordinary, Part 11,
17th June, 2010)

S.R.O. 518(I)/2010, dated 16-6-2010.---In exercise of the powers conferred by section 11 of the Federal Levies Force Regulation, 2010 the Federal Government is pleased to make the following rules, namely:-‑

1. Short title and commencement.---(1) These rules may be called Federal Levies Force (Service) Rules, 2010.

(2) They shall come into force at once.

2. Definitions.---(1) In these Rules, unless the context otherwise require, the following expressions shall have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them, namely:

(a) "Appointing Authority" means the appointing authority specified in rule 4;

(b) "Government" means the Federal Government;

(c) "Schedule" means the Schedule to these rules; and

(d) "Selection or Promotion Committee"means a committee for recruitment or as the case may be, promotion of Force personnel as notified by the Commandant.

(2) The expression used but not defined herein shall have the same meanings as are assigned to them under the Federal Levies Force Regulation, 2010.

3. Composition and eligibility of the Force.—(1) The Force shall comprise of the posts specified in Schedule-I and such other posts as may be determined by the Government from time to time.

(2) Recruitment to the Force shall be made in accordance with requirements specified in Schedule-I. The following conditions shill alsofulfilled, namely:

(a)     a candidate for appointment shall be a citizen of Pakistan and bona fide resident of the respective district, agency or frontier region, as the case may be

(b)    no candidate shall be appointed to a post unless he is found, after medical examination, to be in good mental and bodily health and free from physical defect likely to interfere in the efficient discharge of his duties;

(c)     Medical Superintendent of the respective district headquarter hospital or agency headquarter hospital shall issue a certificate of medical fitness of the candidate;

(d)    recruitment to all ranks of the Force shall be made from amongst those persons having a minimum height of five feet and five inches and chest measurement of thirty-two to thirty-four inches with an age of not less than eighteen years and not more than twenty-five years;

(e)     the upper age limit may be relaxed up to three years in special circumstances and in case of ex-servicemen up to five years by the competent Authority;

(f)      no person (except those who are not already in Government Service) shall be appointed to the Force unless he produces a certificate of character from the Principal or Academic Officer of the academic institution last attended and also a certificate of character from two other gazetted officers or Maliksfrom respective districts or subsection of the tribes, not being his relative and who are well acquainted with his character; and

(g)     no person who is married to a foreign national shall be eligible for appointment in the Force, unless allowed by the Government, in writing.

4. Appointing Authority.(l) Commandant or his nominated officer shall be the appointing authority for initial recruitment or promotion of the Force personnel.

(2) Appointment to the post shall be made in accordance with the provision contained in Schedule-I of these rules.

(3) Appointment shall be made through a duly constituted Selection Committee.

5. Probation.---(l) All selected personnel ' of the Force shall remain on probation for one year extendable by a further period of one year. If no order is issued on the expiry of thefirst year of probation period, the period of probation shall be deemed to have been extended for further one year. If no order is issued on the completion of extended period the probation shall be deemed to have been terminated.

(2) All promotes shall be on probation for a period of one year from the date of promotion and may be reverted to the former rank if they fail to maintain the prescribed standard of conduct and efficiency. All reversion orders shall explain the reasons for making the order and shall be in writing.

6. Training.--(1) All newly recruited personnel of the Force, shall undergo six months pre-service training before being assigned duties of the rank for which they are selected. Initially, the Appointing Authority shall arrange for appropriate training till a proper Levies Training School is established.

(2) The pre-service training mentioned in sub-rule (1) may contain training on basic laws, investigation techniques, mob control, basic intelligence, arrest and detention procedure, jail duties, drill, weapons training, field craftbramtha, bomb disposal, counter assault, traffic control etc. Proper training syllabus and module shall be developed through\mutual consultation with local law enforcing agencies by the Commandant.

7. Resignation.—No member of the Force shall resign before the expiration of the first three months of his recruitment or he shall deposit an amount equal to his three months pay in lieu of his three months essential service.

8. Seniority and promotion.---Promotion shall be strictly on seniority cum fitness basis as well as on the required length of service as specified in Schedule-I. The services of apersonnel by initial recruitment or promotion may be dispensed with or reverted if, in the opinion of the Competent Authority, his work and conduct is not satisfactory during probation period or due to abolishment of posts, as the case may be. A seniority list shall be maintained at district, agency, and frontier region level.

9. Transfer during service.—Members of the Force shall be liable to transfer anywhere in their respective district or agency or frontier region. An Officer may be transferred to any other district or agency or frontier regions in the public interest.

10. Punishment.—After satisfying themselves regarding punishable acts (as referred to in schedule-II ) through a proper inquiry, the necessary punishment specified in schedule-III may be awarded by the Competent Authority. A person to whom punishment is awarded shall be given an opportunity to show cause in writing. However, in circumstances where it is not possible to adopt this procedure the Competent Authority, for reasons to be recorded in writing, may dispense with such requirement.

11, Appeal.—If a Force personnel is aggrieved by any order under these rules, he may within thirty days of communication to him of such order, prefer appeal to the Competent Authority. Force personnel may file a review petition to the next higher authority within thirty days of the receipt of decision of appeal or sixty days of the preference of appeal, whichever is earlier.

12. Awards and commendations.—(l) Force personnel may be given special award and commendation certificate for devotion to duty, demonstration of gallantry and achievement in the performance of duty, in the manners as prescribed by the Commandant after approval from the Government.

(2) Force personnel, if embraces martyrdom in the discharge of his duty, will be given proper Guard of Honor at the time of burial.

13. Service record.—Proper service rolls of all Force personnel stall be maintained in Levy Office of each district or agency or frontier region. Annual Reports of all havaldars and junior commissioned officers (JCO) will also be maintained for the purpose of promotion.

14. Leave.—(1) Earned leave may be granted depending on the exigencies and at the discretion of the Competent Authority. All leave of ten days or above, will be considered as long leave and shall be granted on the recommendation of subedar major by the Competent Authority.

(2) Casual leave may be allowed up to three days by the Competent Authority. Casual leave up to nine days may be granted by the Deputy Commandant (to be notified by the Commandant) on the recommendation of the concerned JCO.

(3) Medical Leave shall be granted by the Commandant on the production of medical certificate from the Civil Surgeon concerned.

15. Salary.—The Force personnel shall be entitled to receive pay and allowances as per their pay scales notified by the Government from time to time.

16. Gratuity and pension.—All Force personnel will be entitled to pension as per prevailing Government rules.

17. Compensation.(l) The family of Force personnel shall be granted death compensation in case the Force personnel embraces martyrdom during discharge of his duty as per rates prescribed by the Government.

(2) Force personnel shall be granted compensation in case of sustaining fatal injury or injuries during the discharge of his duty. If he is declared incapacitated for further service due to such fatality, he shall be entitled to gratuity and pension for rendering minimum service of ten years.

(3) Sons and wards of such martyred and incapacitated Force personnel shall be given preference in recruitment of Force personnel for compensating the family martyr.

18. Funds.—(1) Force personnel shall be governed by the provision of general provident fund, benevolent fund and group insurance as prescribed for other employees of the Government.

(2) A special welfare fund for Force personnel shall be created by the Government at Federal level with monthly contribution from all Force personnel at the rate as prescribed by the Commandant, which shall be utilized for the general welfare of Force personnel and their families.

19. Health care.—Medical facilities for the Force personnel and their families shall be catered at local Government hospitals and dispensaries at par with other employees of the Government.

20. Monitoring and evaluation.--(1) Commandant or Deputy Commandant of the Force shall set up suitable number of levy posts in the respective jurisdiction and shall assign suitable number of Force personnel at each of such levy post.

(2) There shall be a levy line in each district, agency and frontier region, which shall have all necessary facilities including parade ground,barraks, quarter guards, kote and armory etc.

(3) Every personnel of the Force shall wear prescribed uniform along with all assessors at the time of duty during the duty hours and beyond if assigned special duty.

(4) Duty registers showing the duties assigned to each individual on day to day basis shall be maintained in each levy post by a muharrir.

(5) Naib subedar shall be responsible for carrying out the work assigned to Force personnel whose duties shall be intimated in advance with written entry in the duty register.

(6) Such registers including roznamchas as prescribed by the Commandant shall be maintained in every post.      .

(7) Sub-divisional magistrates, tehsildars andnaib tehsildars shall in the course of their tours, inspect levy duty register androznamchas and satisfy themselves that Force personnel are carrying out their respective duties. A note regarding absence from the post or from the place of duty of any Force personnel without leave, shall invariably be recorded by inspecting officers in the Force duty register. Matter shall be reported to Assistant Director or District Commandant within twenty four hours for appropriate action.

SCHEDULE-I
[See rules 4(2)]

S.No.   Post/Rank       Eligibility for              Promotion       Direct              Qualification
                                    Promotion                  Quota              Quota
                       
1.         Subedar           5 years service 100%              --                     -‑
            Major               as Subedar.                                                                                        (BPS-16)

2.         Subedar           5 years service100%               --                     -‑
            (BPS-13)         as Naib
                                    Subedar.

3.         Naib                 5 years service 100%              --                     -‑
            Subedar           as Havaldar
            (BPS-11).

4.         Havaldar          3 years service100%               --                     -‑
            (BPS-8)           as Sepoy and
                                    above rank.

5.         Naik (BPS-      3 years service 100%              --                     -‑
            7)                     as Sepoy or
                                    Lance Naik.

6.         L/Naik             2 years service 100%              --                     -‑
            (BPS-6).          as Sepoy

7.         Sepoy                                                                        100%               Middle Pass
            (BPS-5).                                                                                            Preferably                                                                                                                               metric

8.         Assistant           5 years service 50%                50%                 B.A. or             (PBS-14)         as Senior Clerk                                                equivalent for                                                                                                                          direct                                                                                                                                      recruitment.
9.         Senior              5 years service 50%                50%                 F.A. or                        Clerk                as Junior Clerk.                                                  Equivalent                     (BPS-9)                                                                                             (Preferably                                                                                                                              know
                                                                                                                      Typing/                                                                                                                                   Computer)

10.       Junior                                                  10% from         90%                 Matric or                     Clerk                                                   lower staff                                equivalent
            (BPS-7)                                              with                                         (Preferably                                                                              Matric                                     know
                                                                                                                      Tying/                                                                                                                                     Computer).
11.       Driver                                                                         100%               Driving
            (BPS-4)                                                                                             Licence/
                                                                                                                       Driving                                                                                                                                   experience
12.       Tracker            5 years service 10%                90%                 Primary Pass.
            (BPS-2)           in BPS-1

13.       Bahishti                                                                       100%              Literate.
            (BPS-1)

14.       Sweeper                                                                      100%              Literate.
            (BPS-1)

SCHEDULE-II
[See rule 10]

Grounds of Penalty:

The concerned authority may impose one or more penalties (as specified in Schedule-III of these rules), where a personnel of the Force, in the opinion of the authority,

(a)    is inefficient or has ceased to be efficient.

(b)   is guilty of misconduct, like unauthorized absence from leave, breach of order, disobedience, unruly behavior, passing on official secrets to unauthorized persons, etc;

(c)    is corrupt, or may reasonably be considered as corrupt;

(d)   is guilty of any violation of duty;

(e)    losses, misplaces or causes harm to a weapon through negligence or lack of maintenance;

(f)     is grossly insubordinate to his superiors;

(g)    is convicted of a criminal offence;

(h)    is guilty of cowardice, or abandons any piquet, fortress, post or guard which is committed to his charge, or which is his duty to defend;

(i)      is engaged in propagation of sectarian, parochial, anti-state views. and controversies;

(j)     is engaged or is reasonable suspected of being engaged to excite, cause or conspire to cause or joins in any mutiny, or being present at any mutiny and does not use his utmost endeavor to suppress it;

(k)   attempt collective bargaining, conspiring or attempting to call off duty or take out procession to press for the demands;

(l)      is guilty of omission and commission under the law and rules.


SCHEDULE-III [See rule 10]
PUNISHMENT AND COMPETENT AUTHORITY

S. No.    Punishment        Subedar             Naib                        Naik or          Sepoy
    Major or            Subedar or               Lance
    Subedar            Havaldar                   Naik

1.                  Extra Drill not         -                        -                             Subedar         Naib
exceeding                                                                                            Subedar
fifteendays fatigue
orother duties.

2.                  Confinement to    Director            Deputy                     Assistant           Subedar
            quarter guard                                Director                 Director  Major
upto    fifteen
days

3.                  Censure.            -do-                    -do-                        -do-                 -do‑

4.         Forfeiture  of      -do-                     -do-                         -do-                -do‑
approved
service upto two
years.

5.                Stoppage  of      -do-                     -do-                           -do-              -do- increment not
         exceeding one
            month's pay.

6.                Fine to any         -do-                     -do-                           -do-              -do‑
amountnot
exceedingone
month'spay.

7.                Withholding of    -do-                    -do-                          - do-              -do- promotion for
           one year or less.

8.                Reduction from    do-                     -do-                            -do-        -do- substantive rank
           to a low rank or
           reduction in
            pay.


9.                Dismissal   or        -do-                   -do-                               -do-    -do-  removal from
           Service     or
           Compulsory Retirement


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