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REGD. No. D. L.-33004/99
The Gazette of India
CG-DL-E-27052025-263405
EXTRAORDINARY
PART II- Section 4
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
No. 10]
NEW DELHI, TUESDAY, MAY 27, 2025/ JYAISTHA 6, 1947
MINISTRY OF DEFENCE
NOTIFICATION
New Delhi, the 27th May, 2025
S.R.O. 10(E).— In exercise of the powers conferred by section 11 of the Inter-services
Organisations (Command, Control and Discipline) Act, 2023 (28 of 2023), the Central Government hereby
makes the following rules, namely:-
1. Short title and commencement.- (1)These rules may be called the Inter-services Organisations
(Command, Control and Discipline) Rules, 2025.
(2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.
2. Definitions.- In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires -
(a) "Act" means the Inter-services Organisations (Command, Control and Discipline) Act, 2023
(28 of 2023);
(b) “Inter-services establishment" means an establishmentconsisting of persons, subject to the
Army Act, 1950 (45 of 1950), the Air Force Act, 1950 (46 of 1950) and the Navy Act, 1957
(62 of 1957) or any two of the said Acts, and commanded by an Officer-in-Command, of the rank of
Major General or Air Vice Marshal or Rear Admiral or above;
(c) "Inter-services Organisation" shall have the meaning as assigned to it in clause (g) of
sub-section (1) of section 3 of the Act;
(d) "Inter-services unit" means a unit or ship or establishment, consisting of persons, subject to the
Army Act, 1950 (45 of 1950), the Air Force Act, 1950 (46 of 1950) and the Navy Act, 1957
(62 of 1957)or any two of the said Acts, and commanded by an Officer subject to any of the said Acts,
empowered in terms of section 8 of theAct;
(e) "Joint Services Command" means a Command consisting of persons, subject to the Army
Act, 1950 (45 of 1950), the Air Force Act, 1950 (46 of 1950) and the Navy Act, 1957 (62 of 1957) or
any two of the said Acts, and commanded by a Commander-in-Chief, of the rank of Lieutenant General
or Air Marshal or Vice Admiral;
(f) Words and expressions used herein and not defined in the Act or in these rules, but defined
either in the Army Act, 1950 (45 of 1950), the Air Force Act, 1950 (46 of 1950) and the Navy Act,
1957 (62 of 1957) or in the rules or regulations made thereunder, shall have the meaning respectively
assigned to them under the said Acts, rules or statutory regulations, as the case may be.
3. Command.-(1) When the Commander-in-Chief, the Officer-in-Command or the Commanding Officer
is absent, on leave or otherwise, the officer to officiate as the Commander-in-Chief, Officer-in-Command or the
Commanding Officer shall be notified in the Inter-services Organisation, Establishment or Unit Orders, as the
case may be and in case of emergency where such Orders have not been notified, by such officer as deputed to
officiate by the next higher formation, until the appointment is notified.
(2) The officer officiating under sub-rule (1) as the Commander-in-Chief, the Officer-in-Command or the
Commanding Officer, shall, subject to such restrictions as contained in the respective Service Acts, rules or
regulations, exercise any power conferred on the Commander-in-Chief, the Officer-in-Command or the
Commanding Officer, as the case may be.
4. Disciplinary and administrative power. -The Commander-in-Chief of a Joint Services Command,
Officer-in-Command of Inter-services establishment and Commanding Officer of Inter-services unit shall
exercise all disciplinary and administrative power over a person subject to any of the Service Acts, posted or
attached to that Inter-services Oragnisation, in accordance with theService Acts, rules or regulations applicable
to such person.
5. Residuary provision.- Matter relating to command, control and disciplinary and administrative
powers of the Commander-in-Chief or, as the case may be, Officer-in-Command of the Inter- services
Organisation or the Commanding Officer of an Inter-services unit with respect to which no express provision
has been made in these rules or in the Service Acts or in the rules or regulations made thereunder, shall be
referred to the Central Government for its decision.
[F. No. 1(10)/2009-D(GS-1)(Vol. IV)]
REAR ADMIRAL VIKRAM MENON, Jt. Secy.
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