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Saving. H-3896-i GUJARAT ACT NO. 23 OF 1972.0» ° - [Tee GusArar Essentiar Servioss Matsrmxaxo Aon, 1972.] i [12th December, 1972.] Amented by Guj. 34 of 1980. An Act to provide for the maintenance of certain essential services and the normal life of the community, ’ It is hereby enacted in the Twenty-third Year of tho Republic of India a follows :— 1.. (I) This Act may be called: the Gujarat Essential Services Maintenance Act, 1)72. A Short title, : 3 SRL Ey extent and (2) It extends to the whole of the State of Gujarat.” Somiiengss ) | : i ) pore te | ' ment. (3) It shall come into forco:at once. 2, (I) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,— Definitions. - (a) essential service” means,— (9) all employment under the State Government (including all officers and servantsof the State Legislature Secretariat and of the High Court); (6) any other employment or class of employment connected with matters with respect to which the State Legislature has power to make laws, in res- peet of which the State Government is of opinion that strikes in such employ- ment or class of employment would prejudicially affect the: maintenance of any public utility service, the public safety or the maintenance of ‘supplies “or serviges essential to the life of, the commanity: or would result in the infliction of grave hardship on the community, and which the State Government declares, by notification in the Official Gazette, to bo an esiential service for the purposes: of this Act: ; i (b) “strike” moans the cossation of work by a body of persons employad in any essential s0Tvie acting in combination or a concerted refusal or a rofusal under a common undorstanding of any number of porsons who aro or havo bean so employed to continue to work or te accept employment, and includes— Cat ‘ (3) rofusnl to work overtime whore such work is negostary for the main- tenance of any essontinl servico ; Eh (#6) any other conduct which islikoly to resultin, or rosults in, cessation or substantial retardation of worl in any ossontial sorvico.