[4] The full text of the Statement of Objects and Reasons appended to the bill is given below: Article 316(2) of the Constitution provides that the Chairman and Members of a State Public Service Commission or Joint Commission shall retire at 58 or hold office for a term of six years from the date on which they enter service, whichever is earlier.
Subsequently, while the age of retirement of the High Court Judges was changed to 58, that of the Chairman and the Members of the State Public Service Commissions remained unchanged.
It will not be attractive for these academics to serve on a Public Service Commission if the age of retirement remains sixty.
The proposal is to raise the age of retirement of the Chairman and Members of the State Public Service Commissions to 62.
[4] The bill received assent from then President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed on 7 September 1976, and came into force on the same day.