Declaration of relief under- taking

The State Government may, if it is satisfied that it is necessary or expedient so to do in the public interest, with a view to enabling the continued running or re-starting of a State Industrial undertaking as a measure of preventing, or of providing relief against, unemployment declare, by notification, that the State Industrial undertaking shall, on and from such date and for such period as may be specified in the notification, be a relief undertaking:

Provided that the period so specified shall not, in the first instance, exceed one year but may, by a like notification, be extended from time to time, by any period not exceeding one year at any one time so however that such period in the aggregate shall not exceed ten years.