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ACT VII OF 1975 ACT VII OF 1975 ASSOCIATED CEMENT (VESTING) ACT, 1974 An Act to provide for the vesting of the Associated Cement in the State Cement Corporation of Pakistan Limited [Gazette of Pakistan, Extraordinary, Part I, 17th January 1975] The following Act of Parliament received the assent of the President .on the 13th January 1975, and is hereby published for general information :- 4. Continuance in service of employees, etc.----(1) Every officer and employee employed for the purposes of the Associated Cement shall, on the commencing day, become an officer or employee, as the case may be, of the Corporation and shall hold office therein on such terms and conditions, which are not less favourable than those to which he was entitled immediately before the commencing day, as the Corporation may determine: Provided that an officer or employee of the Corporation shall, unless his services are earlier terminated in accordance with the terms and conditions applicable to him, retire from service on the completion of the fifty-eighth year of his age. (2) Any officer or employee who becomes an officer or employee of the Corporation under subsection (1) may be transferred- (a) by the Corporation, to any company or project set up by it, or (b) by the Federal Government, to any other corporation, company or industrial unit controlled by it, and shall hold office therein on terms and conditions which are not less favourable than those to which he was entitled immediately before such transfer. (3) Any officer or employee who becomes an officer or employee of the Corporation under subsection (1), or is transferred under subsection (2), shall not be entitled to any compensation or to the designation which he was holding immediately before the commencing day or, as the case may be, the date of such transfer, and no claim for such compensation or designation shall be entertained by any Court, tribunal or other authority. (4) If any question arises as to whether any person was, immediately before the commencing day an officer or employee employed for the purposes of the Associated Cement, the question shall be referred to the Federal Government whose decision shall be final.