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ORDINANCE III OF 2000 BALOCHISTAN PROVINCE REMOVAL FROM SERVICE (SPECIAL POWERS) ORDINANCE, 2000 ORDINANCE III OF 2000 An Ordinance to provide for dismissal, removal, compulsory retirement from service and reduction to lower post or pay scale of certain persons from Balochistan Government service and corporation service [Gazette of Balochistan, Extraordinary, 17th August, 2000] No. Legis. 1-119/Law/2000, dated 17-8-2000.--The following Ordinance made by the Governor of Balochistan on 12th August, 2000, is hereby published for general information:-- 3. Removal/suspension of certain persons in Government or Corporation service, etc.--(1) Where, in the opinion of the competent authority, a person in Balochistan Government or corporation service, is-- (a) inefficient, or has ceased to be efficient for any reason; or (b) guilty or misconduct; or (c) corrupt, or may reasonably be considered as corrupt, because- (i) he, or any of his dependents or any other person, through him or on his behalf, is in possession of pecuniary resources or of property, for which he cannot reasonably account for, and which are disproportionate to his known resources of income; or (ii) he has assumed a style of living beyond his known sources of income; or (iii) he has a persistent reputation of being corrupt; or (d) engaged, or is reasonably believed to be engaged, in subversive activities, and his retention in service is prejudicial to national security or he is guilty of disclosure of official secrets to any unauthorised person; or ' (e) found to have been appointed or promoted on extraneous grounds in violation of law and the relevant rules, the competent authority, after inquiry by the Committee constituted under section 5, may, notwithstanding anything contained in any law or the terms and conditions of service of such person, by order in the official Gazette, dismiss or remove such person from service, compulsorily retire from service or reduce him to lower post or pay scale, or impose one or more minor penalties as prescribed in the Balochistan-Civil Servants (Efficiency and Discipline) Rules, 1992: Provided that no action under this section shall be taken in respect of any such person except after informing him of the reasons thereof and giving him an opportunity to show cause within fifteen days as to why such action should not be taken against him. (2) The dismissal or removal or premature retirement from service, or reduction to lower post or pay scale of a person under subsection (1) shall not absolve such person from liability to any punishment to which he may be liable for an offence under any law committed by him while in service.