Definitions

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 Legislative Assembly of the State of Manipur has power to make laws; (ii) any service connected with the production, storage, supply or distribution, as the case may be, of gas or water; (iii) any service connected with the maintenance of public health and sanitation, including hospitals, dispensaries, Primary Health Centres and Primary Health Sub-Centres; (iv) any service in any establishment or undertaking dealing with the production, supply or distribution of power; (b) "Government" means the Government of the State of Manipur; (c) "strike" means the cessation of work by a body of persons while 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 who have been so employed to continue to work or to accept work assigned, 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; (d) words and expressions used in sections 8 and 9 and not defined, but defined in the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 shall have the meanings respectively assigned to them in that Act,