Article 313

Part XIV — Services under the Union and the States · Constitution of India

Article 313

Transitional provisions. Until other provision is made in this behalf under this Constitution, all the laws in force immediately before the commencement of this Constitution and applicable to any public service or any post which continues to exist after the commencement of this Constitution, as an all-India service or as service or post under the Union or a State shall continue in force so far as consistent with the provisions of this Constitution.

In plain wordsService laws in force before the Constitution kept applying to government posts that continued afterwards, as long as they did not conflict with the Constitution. A bridge rule so government employment never fell into a legal gap.

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