Section 17 of Kerala High Court Service Rules, 2007

17. Rule 17 :- (1)Notwithstanding anything contained in any orders of appointment or promotion or an order declaring probation, the existing incumbents in the categories of Private Secretary to the Chief Justice, Personal Assistant to the Chief Justice and Additional Personal Assistant to the Chief Justice may be posted back to his parent cadre from which he was appointed, by the Chief Justice and in that event he shall be granted promotion/(s) which he would have obtained had he not been absent from the parent cadre. (2) The above sub rule will mutatis mutandis apply to the existing incumbents in the categories of Public Relations Officer, Protocol Officer, Assistant Protocol Officer, Finance Officer, Librarian, Reference Librarian, Assistant Librarian, Accountant, Head Translator, Cataloguer, Translator and Translator(Kannada) and they may be posted back to their parent cadre at any time by the Chief Justice. (3) The appointees to the posts referred to in sub rules (1) and (2) shall hold office during the pleasure of the Chief Justice and on their posting back to their parent cadre they shall be granted all service benefits which they would have obtained had they not been absent from duty in the parent cadre. (4) The Chief Justice, if he thinks fit, may pass orders granting pay protection to the existing incumbents in service on the date of enforcement of these rules who are reverted under sub-rule (3).