The Regional Rural Banks Act, 1976
17. Staff of Regional Rural
Banks
1. A
Regional Rural Bank may appoint such number of officers and other employees as
it may consider necessary or desirable for the efficient performance of its
functions and may determine the terms and conditions of their appointment and
service:
Provided that it shall be lawful for a
Sponsor Bank, if requested so to do by a Regional Rural Bank sponsored by it,
to send, during the first five years of the functioning of a Regional Rural
Bank, such number of officers or other employees on deputation to the Regional
Rural Bank as may be necessary or desirable for the efficient performance of
its functions:
Provided further that the remuneration of
officers and other employees appointed by a Regional Rural Bank shall be such
as may be determined by the Central Government, and, in determining such
remuneration, the Central Government shall have due regard to the salary
structure of the employees of the State Government and the local authorities of
comparable level and status in the notified area.
1.
2. Notwithstanding
anything contained in the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947, or any other law for
the time being in force, no award, judgment, decree, decision or order of any
industrial tribunal, court or other authority, made before the commencement of
this Act, shall apply to the terms and conditions in relation to the persons
appointed by a Regional Rural Bank.
3. The
officers and other employees of a Regional Rural Bank shall exercise such
powers and perform such duties as may be entrusted or delegated to them by the
Board.