Declaration of relief undertaking

Declaration of relief undertaking.—(1) If the Government are satisfied that it is necessary to do so in the public interest, with a view to enabling the continued running or restarting of a State industrial undertaking as a measure of preventing, or of providing relief against, unemployment, the Government may, by notification, declare that the State industrial undertaking shall, with effect from such date and for such period as may be specified in the notification, be a relief undertaking: Provided that no notification under this sub-section shall, in the first instance, exceed one year; but the Government may, by a like notification, extend from time to time, by any period not exceeding one year at any one time, any such notification, so however, that no notification under this sub-section shall in any case remain in force for more than ten years in the aggregate.