Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) Avoidance of strikes and lock-outs.- If in the opinion of the Government it is necessary or expedient so to do for securing the public safety, the maintenance of public order, or for maintaining supplies and services, essential to the life of the community, the Government may by notified order applying generally or to any specified area make provision:- (a) for prohibiting a strike or lock-out, or stay in-strike, or sit-down-strike or any variety thereof in connection with any industrial or other dispute; (b) for requiring employers, workmen or both to observe for such period as may be specified in the order such terms and conditions of employment as may be determined in accordance with the order; (c) for referring any industrial or other dispute for conciliation, arbitration or adjudication in the manner provided in the order; (d) for enforcing for such period as may be specified in the order all or any of the decisions of the authority to which an industrial or other dispute has been referred for arbitration or adjudication; (e) for any incidental and supplementary matters which appear to the Government necessary or expedient for the purposes of the order: Provided that no order made under clause[b] (i) shall require an employer to observe terms and conditions of employment less favourable to the workmen than those which were applicable to them at any time within three months preceeding the date of the order; (ii) shall where an industrial or other dispute is referred for arbitration or adjudication under clause (c), be enforced after the decision of the arbitrating or adjudicating authority is announced by or with the consent of the Government. (2) Unless any such order makes express provision to the contrary, nothing therein contained shall affect the power to refer any industrial dispute for adjudication, conciliation or arbitration under any other law for the time being in force. (3) Nothing in the Arbitration Acts for the time being in force shall apply to any proceedings under any such order. (4) An order made under sub-section [1] referring an industrial or other dispute for arbitration or adjudication shall specify as far as may be practicable the matters upon which arbitration, or adjudication is necessary or desirable; Provided that- [i] the Government may of their own motion or at the instance or any arbitrating or adjudicating authority add to, amend or vary the matters so specified; [ii] the Government may with a view to specify the said matters direct the arbitrating or adjudicating authority to make a preliminary enquiry into the nature of the dispute, and postpone the specification for such time as may be reasonably required,