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Compulsory Public Service Act (No. 70 of 1961) - Sect 6

Obligation imposed on persons in regard to the employment of graduates subject to compulsory public service

6.
(1) Every person shall be under an obligation not to employ, or continue in his employment, any graduate on whom an obligation is imposed by sub-section (1) or subsection (3) of section 4 for so long and so long only as such graduate has not discharged that obligation unless such graduate is deemed to be exempted from the discharge of that obligation under this Act:
(2) Every person who fails to discharge the obligation imposed on him by subsection (1) of this section shall be guilty of an offence under this Act and shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred and fifty rupees for every day during which such failure continues.
(3) No suit or prosecution shall lie against any person for any act which in good faith is done or purported to be done by him in order to discharge the obligation imposed on him by subsection (1) of this section.

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