Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
In this Act, unis. the ccitext otherwise requires. (a) "essential service" incm - - (1) any .tranport service for the carriage of passengers or ;oods, by land or water, with rezpoct to whi t State Legis- !ature has power to mk ivs; any ervi.ce cncted with the supply of water, electricity or any other essential commodity. (iii) any service connected with the main- tenance of public health and sanitation, including hospitals and dispensaries; (iv) public services and posts in connection with the affairs of the state; and also persons appointed to the secretariat staff oi the State LegislaUve Assembly. (v) any other servica or cuployment or class thereof, connected with matters with respect to wieh the State Legislature has power to make lav;,F and which the State Government is of opinion that strikes in 15, February, 2018 The Nagaland Gazette, Part-V 799 'rohbi.r of ske such service, employment, or class there- of, would prejudicially affect the public safety or the maintenance of the supplies or services essential to the life of the community or would result in the inflic- tion of grave hardship on the community, and which the State Government by noti- fication in the official Gazette declares to be an essential service for the purposes of this Act; (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 have been so employed to continue to work or to accept employ- ment, and includes - (1) refusal to work overtime where such work is necessary for zhe maintenance of any essential service; (ii) any other conduct which is likely to result in or results in, ceszatiort or substantial retardation oi work in =y essential service.