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rule (2) shall be final

· 2005-08-09
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Date2005-08-09
TypeCommercial Circular
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CurrencyHistorical — likely superseded

Summary

rule (2) shall be final In 2005, the revised ‘Railway Servants (Hours of Work and Period of Rest)

Text of the circular

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RULES, 2005
RULES, 2005
RULES, 2005
RULES, 2005 
 
 
            Railway Servants (Hours of Employment) Rules, 1961 were framed under 
the Indian Railways Act, 1890.  Under Rule 3(1) of the said Rules, the powers to 
declare employment of railway servants as ‘Essentially Intermittent’ or 
‘Continuous vests with the head of railway administration. Rule 4 of the said rules 
provides that:- 
 
 
 
If any question arises in respect of a declaration made under rule 3, the 
matter shall be referred to the Regional Labour Commissioner (C) whose 
decision subject to the provisions of sub-rule (2) shall be final. 
 
 
Any person aggrieved by the decision of the RLC(C) may, before the 
expiry of 30 days from the date on which the decisions of the RLC(C) is 
communicated to him, prefer an appeal to the Government whose decision 
thereon shall be final. 
 
 
Under Rule 2 (d), ‘Government means the Central Government in the 
Ministry of  Labour’. 
 
 
In 2005, the revised ‘Railway Servants (Hours of Work and Period of Rest) 
Rules’ were notified by the Ministry of Railways by issuing a Notification.    In this 
Notification the Secretary (L&E) was made the Appellate Authority.   
Subsequently this has been amended and the concerned Joint Secretary/ Additional 
Secretary in the Ministry of Labour & Employment has been degnated Appellate 
Authority.

RAILWAY SERVANTS (HOURS OF WORK AND PERIOD OF REST) 
RULES, 2005 
  
RAILWAY SERVANTS (HOURS OF WORK AND PERIOD OF REST) 
RULES, 2005 
(The earlier rules regulating the hours of work and rest of the Railway servants 
called "Railway servants (Hours of Employment) Rule 1961 and any orders issued 
there under in so far as they were inconsistent with revised rules have been 
repealed and revised rules called "The Railway Servants (Hours of Work and 
Period of Rest) Rules, 2005 have been made, which are printed hereunder) 
MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS 
(Railway Board) 
New Delhi, the 28th February, 2005 
RBE No: 131/2005, No. E(LL)2001/HER/9, New Delhi Dated: 09-08-2005 
G.S.R.75, 28th February, 2005:- In exercise of the powers conferred by section 
136 of the Railways Act, 1989 (24 of 1989), the Central Government hereby 
makes the following rules, namely:- 
PART-1 
1. SHORT TITLE, COMMENCEMENT AND APPLICATION 
(1) These rules may be called the Railway Servants (Hours of Work and Period of 
Rest) Rules, 2005. 
(2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official 
Gazette. 
(3) They shall apply only to those railway servants to whom Chapter XIV of the 
Act applies. 
2. DEFINITIONS:- 
In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires,- 
(a) 'Act' means the Railways Act, 1989 (24 of 1989). 
(b) `full-night' means the period between 10.00 p.m. and 6.00 a.m.;

(c) 'long-on' means a period of duty over eight hours in the case of 'intensive' 
workers, over ten hours in the case of 'continuous’ workers and over twelve hours 
in the case of 'essentially intermittent' workers; 
(d) 'Ordinary rate of pay' includes- 
        I.            pay as defined in rule 1303 (F.R. 9) of the Indian Railway Establishment 
Code Volume-11 (1990 Edition) and includes element of running allowance to the 
extent of 30 per cent of basic pay in the case of running staff as defined in Rule 
1507 of the aforesaid Code, 
      II.            (ii) Dearness Allowance, Additional Dearness Allowance and Dearness 
Pay, if any, and 
    III.            (iii) Compensatory (City) Allowance; 
(e) "Railway servants employed in confidential capacity" includes- 
(I)      stenographers working either in a separate confidential cell or attached to 
the officers in Administrative offices, 
(II

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