Public Servants (Continuity of Service) Act, 1938

Definitions.

1.—In this Act—

the expression “public servant” includes every person who, immediately before the coming into operation of the Constitution, was in a service (whether civil, military, police, or otherwise) which, on the coming into operation of the Constitution, became by virtue of the Constitution a service of the Government or of the State;

the expressions “the Board” and “transferred officer” have the same meanings as they respectively have in the Civil Service (Transferred Officers) Compensation Act, 1929 (No. 36 of 1929).