section 3
Power to prohibit strikes in certain employments.
The Goa Essential Services Maintenance Act, 1988General198811 sections
Statutory text
- (1) If the Government is satisfied that in the public interest it is necessary or expedient so to do, it may, by general or special Order, prohibit strikes in any essential service specified in the Order.
- (2) An Order made under sub-section (1) shall be published in such manner as the Government considers best calculated to bring it to the notice of the persons affected by the Order.
- (3) An Order made under sub-section (1) shall be in force for six months only, but the Government may, by a like Order, extend it for any period not exceeding six months if it is satisfied that in the public interest it is necessary or expedient so to do.
- (4) Upon the issue of an Order under sub-section (1),—
- (a) no person employed in any essential service to which the Order relates shall go or remain on strike; – 3 –
- (b) any strike declared or commenced, whether before or after the issue of the Order, by persons employed in any such service shall be illegal.
- (5) Any Order made under this section may at any time be rescinded by the Government by a like Order, but such rescission shall not affect the previous operation of anything duly done or suffered thereunder, and shall not affect any obligation or liability accrued or incurred or any penalty or punishment incurred in respect of any offence committed under this Act before such rescission.
- (6) No Order under sub-section (1) or sub-section (3) or sub-section (5) shall be made in respect of persons appointed to the secretarial staff of the Legislative Assembly except at the request of the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly.
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