Definitions

Definitions.-

1. (1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—
   • (a) "essential service" means—
     • (i) any transport service for the carriage of passengers or goods by land or water, with respect to which the State Legislature has power to make laws;
     • (ii) any service connected with the operation of the system of public conservancy, sanitation, water supply, hospitals or dispensaries;
     • (iii) any service in connection with or required for the efficient working of such government departments as the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify in this behalf;
     • (iv) any other service or employment or class of services or employments which the State Government, being of opinion that strikes therein would prejudicially affect the maintenance of any public utility service, the public safety or the maintenance of the supplies and services necessary for the life of the community or would result in the infliction of grave hardship on the community, may, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare to be an essential service for the purposes of this Act;
   • (b) "strike" means the cessation of work by a body of persons employed in any essential service acting in combination or a concerted refusal or a refusal under a common understanding of any number of persons who are or have been so employed to continue to work or to accept employment and includes—
     • (i) refusal to work overtime where such work is necessary for the maintenance of any essential service;
     • (ii) any other conduct which is likely to result in, or results in, cessation or substantial retardation of work in any essential service;
2. (2) Every notification issued under sub-clause
   • (iv) of clause
   • (a) of sub-section (1), shall be laid before the Legislative Assembly of Arunachal Pradesh immediately after it is made, if it is in session, and on the first day of the commencement of the next session of the Legislative Assembly, if it is not in session, and shall cease to operate at the expiration of forty days from the date of its being so laid or from the re-assembly of the Legislative Assembly, as the case may be, unless before the expiration of that period a resolution approving the issue of the notification is passed by the Legislative Assembly.
3. (3) Any reference in this Act to any law which is not in force in any area shall, in relation to that area, be construed as a reference to the corresponding law, if any, in force in that area.