The decisions of the Commission shall be by a majority of votes of the Members present and in the case of tie, the Chairman shall have, a second or casting vote.

If the Chairman is unable to be present at a meeting of the Commission, the next senior Member shall preside over the meeting with all the powers of the Chairman and any decision taken in that meeting shall be valid.

The quorum for a meeting of the Commission shall be four but the Chairman may adjourn any business at a meeting if he is of the opinion that it cannot conveniently be transacted owing to the non-attendance of any Member.

The Proceedings of the Commission shall not be invalidated by the reasons of any vacancy in the office of the Chairman or other Member.

All decisions of the Commission shall be recorded in such a manner as the Commission may direct. It shall be open to any Member who dissents from a decision to record his dissent and, if he thinks fit, his reasons for dissenting.

Whenever the Commission is required to give advice on a policy matter or to forward proposals the decision of the Commission shall be communicated in a letter signed by the Secretary. Neither the fact nor the grounds for dissent by any Member shall be communicated unless the Commission so directs.

The Chairman or, in his absence, the Senior Member present may deal with any matter requiring immediate action. Such action shall be reported to the Commission as early as possible.

The Commission may refer any matter to an individual Member or to a Committee consisting of Member and any other persons, the Commission may appoint, for consideration and report to the Commission.

The Commission may, subject to such directions as it thinks fit, delegate to a Committee constituted from among the Members, any of its functions.

Every such Committee shall consist of not less than two Members.

The decision of the Committee shall be communicated to the Chairman who shall refer it to the Commission for final decision.

For the purpose of interview, the Commission may work in Panels as constituted by the Chairman.

The Panel shall normally be comprised of not less than two Members of the Commission. However, in emergency or extreme load of work a single Member Panel can also be constituted. In addition, as far as possible, two advisors i.e. one subject specialist and one departmental representative may assist the Panel during the interview for posts in PBS-16 and above while for posts in BPS-11 to BPS-15 only departmental representative will be associated during the interviews, but where necessary, subject specialist may also be associated.

Candidates for the posts in BPS-19 and above will normally be interviewed by the full Commission, which shall comprise not less then three Members of the Commission including the Chairman.

When the office of the Chairman becomes vacant through death, resignation, completion of terms of office, or otherwise, the senior-most Member shall exercise all the powers and functions of the Chairman until the vacancy is duly filled in.

If the Commission desires to call for any record or report or information which may, in their opinion, be necessary to enable them to discharge their function, they shall address the Secretary to the Government of the Department Concerned.

When a file is to be circulated for obtaining the decision of the Commission it shall be put up first to Member-in-Charge who shall examine it and record his observations if any, and then mark it to the other Members of the Commission in such a way that it moves from Junior Members to Senior Members.

If a Member other than the Member-in-Charge wants the office to add some other information / documents to the case, he shall send the case through the Member Incharge.

Where the decision taken by a Member is contrary to any Regulation, Government instructions or an established practice of the Commission in the opinion of respective Head of the Wing, the matter shall be brought to the notice of such Member and if he dis-agrees with the office views it shall be brought to the Chairman’s notice for taking such action as he may deem proper provided where an interpretation of rule / regulation is involved the matter shall be referred to the Commission.

In matters for which no provision exists in these rules the Chairman may regulate its proceedings in a manner as he thinks fit.