Definitions

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,— (a) "essential service" means any service under the Government of Madhya Pradesh or under a local authority which the State Government 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; In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,— (a) "essential service" means the service specified in the Schedule; (b) "refusal to work" in relation to personnel connected with an essential service means commission of any act by such personnel which is prohibited under section 5.