9. The powers of the Board relating to the selection for the appointment and promotion of the services personnel are as follows:
- (a) determining, with the approval of the Union Government, which rank of services personnel only shall have to be selected by the Board;
- (b) determining to select the services personnel of the remaining ranks by the relevant Services Personnel Organizations in accord with the directives of the Board, other than the stipulated rank of office to be selected only by the Board;
- (c) delegating the Union Services Personnel Organizations to select the services personnel for the prescribed rank under sub-section (b) by forming a body by the head of the relevant Services Personnel Organization;
- (d) causing the head of the Services Personnel Organization of the Region or State to carry out according to the directive of the Board in the matters where it is the services personnel contained in sub-section (i) of section 8, subject to the provisions contained in sub-section (h) of section 8;
- (e) recommending to the office of the Union Government if it is necessary to appoint any rank of services personnel in any Services Personnel Organization due to any unusual circumstance;
- (f) scrutinizing, according to the stipulations relating to promotion, the matters of recommendation by the relevant Services Personnel Organizations in respect of the promotion to the rank of gazetted officer.