Provided further that a candidate may be permitted to take the preliminary examination while studying for his degree so long as by a date to be notified by the Commission, the candidate produces proof of pass in the degree course for being eligible to take the final examination during that year;
(iii-a) Attempts at the examination.-Unless covered by any of the exceptions that may from time to time be notified by the Central Government in this behalf, every candidate appearing for the examination after 1st January 1990, who is otherwise eligible, shall be permitted four attempts at the examination; and the appearance of a candidate at the examination will be deemed to be an attempt at the examination irrespective of his disqualification or cancellation, as the case may be, of his candidature.
Explanation-An attempt at a preliminary examination shall be deemed to be an attempt at the examination, within the meaning of this rule.
(iv) Fees. - He must pay the fees prescribed by the Commission.
5. Disqualification for Admission-Any attempt on the part of a candidate to obtain support for his candidature by any means may be held by the Commission to disqualify him for admission to the examination.
6. Commission's Decision Final.-The decision of the Commission as to the eligibility or otherwise of a candidate for admission to the examination shall be final and no candidate to whom a certificate of admission has not been issued by the Commission shall be admitted to the examination.
7. List of successful candidates.-(1) Subject to the provision of sub-regulation (2) the Commission shall forward to the Central Government a list arranged in order of merit of the candidates who have qualified by such standards as the Commission may determine.
7(2) The candidates, belonging to any of the Scheduled Castes or the Scheduled Tribes may, to the extent of the number of vacancies reserved for the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes, be recommended by the Commission by a relaxed standard, subject to the fitness of these candidates for selection to the Service:
Provided that the candidates, belonging to Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes, who have been recommended by the Commission without resorting to the relaxed standard referred to in this sub-regulation, shall not be adjusted against the vacancies reserved for the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes.
8. Appointments from the List-Subject to the provisions of regulations 9, 10, 12 and 13, candidates will be considered for appointment to the available vacancies in the order in which their names appear in the list.

9. Reservation of vacancies for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Candidates.-
(1) In pursuance of rule 7 of the Recruitment Rules, 15 per cent and 71/2 per cent of the available vacancies shall be reserved for candidates who are members of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes respectively.
9 (2) in filling the vacancies so reserved, candidates who are members of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes, shall be considered for appointment in the order in which their names appear in the list.
9(3) If sufficient number of candidates, who are members of Scheduled Castes or the Scheduled Tribes, are not available for filling all the vacancies so reserved, the vacancies not so filled shall be treated as backlog vacancies and carried forward to the subsequent examinations until they are filled. The backlog vacancies shall be treated as a distinct group separate from the current vacancies, reserved under sub-regulation (1), for candidates, who are members of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes.
10. Disqualification for Appointment on grounds of plural Marriage.- (1) No person-
Who has entered into or contracted a marriage with a person having a spouse living, or
Who, having a spouse living, has entered into or contracted a marriage with any person,
Shall be eligible for appointment to the Service:
Provided that the Central Government may, if satisfied that such marriage is permissible under the personal law applicable to such person and the other party to the marriage and there are other grounds for so doing, exempt any person from the operation of this sub-regulation.
11. Disciplinary action- A candidate who is or has been declared by the Commission to be guilty of.-
(i) Obtaining support for his candidature by the following means, namely:-
(a) Offering illegal gratification to, or
(b) Applying pressure on, or
(c) Blackmailing, or threatening to blackmail any person connected with the conduct of the examination, or;

(ii) Impersonating, or
(iii) Procuring impersonation by any person, or
(iv) Submitting fabricated documents or documents which have been tampered with, or
(v) Making statements which are incorrect or false, or suppressing material information, or
(vi) Resorting to the following means in connection with his candidature for the examination, namely:-
(a) Obtaining copy of question paper through improper means;
(b) Finding out the particulars of the persons connected with secret work relating to the examination;
(c) Influencing the examiners, or,
(vii) Using unfair means during examination, or
(viii) Writing obscene matters or drawing obscene sketches in the scripts, or
(ix) Misbehaving in the examination hall including tearing off the scripts, provoking fellow examinees to boycott examination, creating a disorderly scene and the like, or
(x) Harassing or doing bodily harm to the staff employed by the Commission for the conduct of their examination; or
(xi) Violating any of the instructions issued to candidates along with their admission certificates permitting them to take the examination, or
(xii) Attempting to commit or, as the case may be abetting the commission of all or any of the acts specified in the foregoing clauses: may, in addition to rendering himself liable to criminal prosecution, be liable --
(a) To be disqualified by the Commission from the examination for which he is a candidate; and or
(b) To be debarred either permanently or for a specified period-
(i) By the Commission, from any examination or selection held by them;
(ii) By the Central Government from any employment under them; and
(c) If he is already in service under Government to disciplinary action under the appropriate rules:
Provided that no penalty under clause (a) or clause (b), as the case may be, shall be imposed except after-
(i) Giving the candidate an opportunity of making such representation in writing as he may wish to make in that behalf; and
(ii) Taking the representation, if any submitted by the candidate, within the period allotted to him, into consideration.
12. Disqualification for Appointment on Medical Grounds.-No candidate shall be appointed to the service who after such medical examination as the Central Government may prescribe is not found to be in good mental or bodily health and free from any mental or physical defect likely to interfere with the discharge of the duties of the service.
13. Inclusion in List Confers no Right to Appointment.-The inclusion of a candidate's name in the list confers no right to appointment unless the Central Government is satisfied, after such enquiry as may be considered necessary, that the candidate having regard to his character and antecedents is suitable in all respects for appointment to the Service