New rules have been introduced to amend the Public Servants (Furnishing of Information and Annual Return of Assets and Liabilities) Rules, 2014. These second amendment rules, effective upon publication in the Official Gazette, specifically address the filing of revised declarations, information, and annual returns of property. Public servants are now required to submit these revised filings by October 15, 2015, based on the status as of March 31, 2015. This update builds upon previous notifications regarding asset and liability disclosures for public servants.
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MINISTRY OF PERSONNEL, PUBLIC GRIEVANCES AND PENSIONS (Department of Personnel And Training) NOTIFICATION
New Delhi, the 3rd July, 2015
G.S.R. 536(E),-In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1), clause (k) and clause (l) of sub-section (2) of section 59 read with section 44 and section 45 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) 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, 2015.
(2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette. - 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, sub-rule (2), the following proviso shall be inserted, namely :-
“Provided further 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 $31^{\text {st }}$ day of March, 2015, to the competent authority on or before the $15^{\text {th }}$ day of October, 2015.”
[F. No. 407/12/2014-AVD-IV(B)]
JISHNU BARUA, Jt. Secy.
Note.- The principal rules were published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, vide notification number G.S.R. 501(E), dated the $14^{\text {th }}$ July, 2014 and amended vide notification numbers G.S.R. 638(E), dated $8^{\text {th }}$ September, 2014, G.S.R. 918(E), dated $26^{\text {th }}$ December, 2014 and G.S.R. 322(E), dated $27^{\text {th }}$ April, 2015.