Article 319 of Constitution of India "Prohibition as to the holding of offices by members of Commission on ceasing to be such members"
On ceasing to hold office-
(a) the Chairman of the Union Public Service Commission
shall be ineligible for further employment either under the
Government of India or under the Government of a State;
(b) the Chairman of a State Public Service Commission shall
be eligible for appointment as the Chairman or any other
member of the Union Public Service Commission or as the
Chairman of any other State Public Service Commission, but
not for any other employment either under the Government of
India or under the Government of a State;
(c) a member other than the Chairman of the Union Public
Service Commission shall be eligible for appointment as the
Chairman of the Union Public Service commission or as the
Chairman of a State Public Service Commission, but not for
any other employment either under the Government of India or
under the Government of a State;
(d) a member other than the Chairman of a State Public
Service Commission shall be eligible for appointment as the
Chairman or any other member of the Union Public Service
Commission or as the Chairman of that of any other State
Public Service Commission, but not for any other employment
either under the Government of India or under the Government
of a State.
Article 320 of Constitution of India "Functions of Public Service Commissions"
(1) It shall be the
duty of the Union and the State Public Service Commission to
conduct examinations for appointments to the services of the
Union and the services of the State respectively.
(2) It shall also be the duty of the Union Public Service
Commission, if requested by any two or more State so to do,
to assist those States in framing and operating schemes of
joint recruitment for any services for which candidates
possessing special qualifications are required.
(3) The Union Public Service Commission or the State Public
Service Commission, as the case may be, shall be consulted-
(a) on all matters relating to methods of recruitment to
civil services and for civil posts;
(b) on the principles to be followed in making appointments
to civil services and posts and in making promotions and
transfers from one service to another and on the suitability
of candidates for such appointments, promotions or
transfers;
(c) on all disciplinary matters affecting a person serving
under the Government of India or the Government of a State
in a civil capacity, including memorials or petitions
relating to such matters;
(d) on any claim by or in respect of a person who is serving
or has served under the Government of India or the
Government of a State or under the Crown in India or under
the Government of an Indian State, in a civil capacity, that
any costs incurred by him in defending legal proceedings
instituted against him in respect of acts done or purporting
to be done in the execution of his duty should be paid out
of the Consolidated Fund of India, or, as the case may be,
out of the Consolidated Fund of the State;
(e) on any claim for the award of a pension in respect of
injuries sustained by a person while serving under the
Government of India or the Government of a State or under
the Crown in India or under the Government of an Indian
State, in a civil capacity, and any question as to the
amount of any such award, and it shall be the duty of a
Public Service Commission to advice on any matter so
referred to them and on any other matter which the
President, or, as the case may be, the Governor, of the
State, may refer to them:
Provided that the President as respects the all-India
services and also as respects other services and posts in
connection with the affairs of the Union, and the Governor,
as respects other services and posts in connection with the
affairs of a State, may make regulations specifying the
matters in which either generally, or in any particular
class of case or in any particular circumstances, it shall
not be necessary for a Public Service Commission to be
consulted.
(4) Nothing in clause (3) shall require a Public Service
Commission to be consulted as respects the manner in which
any provision referred to in clause (4) of Article 16 may be
made or as respects the manner in which effect maybe given
to the provisions of Article 335.
(5) All regulations made under the proviso to clause (3) by
the President or the Governor of a State shall be laid for
not less than fourteen days before each House of Parliament
or the House or each House of the Legislature of the State,
as the case may be, as soon as possible after they are made,
and shall be subject to such modifications, whether by way
of repeal or amendment, as both Houses of Parliament or the
House or both Houses of the Legislature of the State may
make during the session in which they are so laid.