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Punjab Industrial Relations Act (XIX of 2010)--- ----Ss. 33, 44 & 47---Change in date of birth in service record---Appellant/employer impugned order of Labour Court whereby grievance petition of the employee was allowed, and change in date of birth in the service record of the employee was allowed---Validity---Employee was appointed on 1-6-1973 and his date of birth was recorded as 1-6-1953 and 9-10-1954 and perusal of record showed that at the time of joining, he was neither matriculate nor had a CNIC and the employee on 21-5-2014, approached the Labour Court for correction of his date of birth---Pakistan Water And Power Development Authority Employees Date of Birth Rules, 1994 were not applicable in the present case, and in such circumstances, only a civil court could make a declaration in relation to determination of date of birth---Contention of correction of date of birth at such belated stage was not warranted under the law, as a government employee could not, under the relevant rules, make any application for change in his date of birth after two years of joining service and the authenticity of date of birth in documents, could not be challenged beyond such period of two years---Order of Labour Court was set aside and appeal of employer was allowed, accordingly. Syed Iqbal Haider v. Federation of Pakistan and another 1998 SCMR 1494 and M.R. Khalid v. Chief Secretary, Punjab and another 1994 SCMR 1633 rel. JUDGMENT JUSTICE CH. MUHAMMAD TARIQ (CHAIRMAN).--- This appeal has been directed against the impugned order dated 9-2-2015 passed by the learned Presiding Officer, Punjab Labour Court No.6, Rawalpindi whereby the learned Labour Court accepted the grievance petition filed by the respondent. 2. Learned counsel for the appellant contended that the appellant is presently employee of IESCO. He was appointed on 1-6-1973 as ALM in Repco where his date of birth was wrongly recorded as 1-6-1953 and 9-10-1954 whereas his actual date of birth as per CNIC and matriculation certificate is 11-2-1955. At the time of his admission neither he had CNIC nor had passed the matriculation examination. Further contended that later on Repco was converted into Wapda and in…

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