Ammendment of section 2

In the Mizoram Essential Service Maintenance Act, 1990 (Act No 15 of 1990). hereinabove and after referred to as the principal Act for section 2, the following section shall be substituted namely :- "Definitions 2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires :- (a) "Code of Criminal Procedure" means the Court of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (Central Act No. 2 of 1974 (b) "Essential Service" means (i) a service in the Police force, Homeguards or such other group of persons as are to assist in the maintenance of law and order or in prevention of offences by virtue of an obligation under a statute, regulation or order; (ii) any service assigned for administration or protection of prisons, reformatories, borstals and Institution of like nature. (iii) any service connected with Public Health, Sanitation Hospitals, Dispensaries; (iv) any service in relation to education; (v) any service for movement of transportation of public servants, passengers, goods or commodities; (vi) any service connected with supply of water, elecricity or anu other essential commodities. (vii) any service engaged in production, supply, distribution and storage of goods or essential commodities: (viii) any public service in connection with the affairs of the State in the Secretariat, departments and districts or local administration; (ix) any service in connection with the affairs of the State not being a service specified in any of the foregoing sub-clauses declared by the State Government, by order, as an essential service; (c) "principal Act" means the Mizoram Maintenance Act, 1990 (No. 15 of 1990): (d) "State Government" means the State Government of Mizoram; (e) "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 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 result in cessation or substantial retardation of works in any essential service; (iii) shawing token strikes and taking of leaves or absence from the place of duty owing to refusal of work to which he is ordinarily employed in any of such essential service.