Amendment of Section 2 of the Act No. 23 of 1980

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(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires:-
- (a) “Essential service” means
  - (i) any service in any establishment or undertaking wholly or substantially owned, controlled or managed by the Government of Meghalaya connected with the production, generation, storage, transmission, supply or distribution, as the case may be, of gas water or electricity;
- (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 who 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 services;
  - (ii) any other conduct which is likely to result in, or results in cessation or substantial retardation of work in any essential service;
- (c) “State” means the State of Meghalaya.
(2) Any reference in this Act to any law which is not in force in any area of the State and to any authority under such law shall, in relation to that area, be construed as a reference to the corresponding law in force in that area and to the corresponding authority under such corresponding law.

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