Population Welfare Planning Programme (Appointment and Temination of Service) Ordinance, 1981

This 1981 ordinance restructured how staff were appointed within Pakistan's Population Welfare Planning Programme, covering employees of the Pakistan Family Planning Council (later called the Population Council) and its provincial Family Planning Boards. Section 1 applies it to all employees of the Council and Boards, including those on deputation, and Section 2 defines key terms including "employee" as anyone appointed on a temporary or ad hoc basis in the Programme on or after 30 April 1977.

Section 3 lets the appointing authority formally appoint an existing employee to a post in the Population Programme based on recommendations from the Federal Public Service Commission or a Departmental Selection Committee; once appointed this way, the person becomes a civil servant under the Civil Servants Act, 1973. Section 4 sets the appointment procedure: cases for Grade 16 and above go to the Commission, others go to the Departmental Selection Committee, which tests the employee's fitness for the post (or an equivalent one).

Section 5 restricts eligibility to existing employees and persons on deputation, though if no suitable candidates are available, remaining vacancies can be filled through the ordinary Civil Servants Act process. Section 6 is a significant provision: it allows the appointing authority to terminate the service of an employee who is not selected for appointment, or who cannot be appointed for lack of a vacancy -- with terminal benefits payable under Section 7 as may be prescribed by rules. Sections 8 and 9 deal with seniority (based on date of appointment to a grade, tie-broken by date of birth) and other service conditions, which otherwise follow the Civil Servants Act, 1973.

Section 10 makes the Ordinance override any other conflicting law, judgment, decree or order, and Section 11 lets the Federal Government make implementing rules. This is a narrow, administrative piece of service legislation aimed at a specific government programme's staff, now over four decades old; anyone relying on its current terms for employment or termination decisions should verify against the current official text.