Section 6(3) in The Assam Finance Service Rules, 1963
(3)Fifty per cent of the vacancies in a batch to be filled at a time in Class II cadre shall be by promotion through Departmental (Promotion) Examination of members belonging to the cadres of Divisional Accountants and Auditors :Provided that the vacancies reserved for the promotion quota for the Auditors and the Divisional Accountant shall bear the nearest ratio as that of the existing number of posts, permanent as well as temporary, of the two cadres, at the time of consideration for promotion. If sufficient number of suitable candidates belonging either to the cadre of Auditors or to the cadre of Divisional Accountants are not available, the vacancies reserved for one of these categories may be filled up by the other :Provided further that a member of the service shall, for promotion, satisfy the following conditions:(a)that a member of Grade II of Class I or a member of Class II has rendered at least 4 years of service in the receptive Grade or Class, as the case may be, on the first January of the year of recruitment;(b)A member belonging to the cadres Divisional Accountants and Auditors does not cross the age of 50 years on the first January of the year in which the departmental examination under Rule 7(2) is held, and is a graduate of a university and has rendered at least 5 years of service in his cadre.
