Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Power to prohibit strike.- (1) [f the Governmentis satisfied that in the public interest it is necessary or expedient so to do, it may by general or special order, prohibit strikes in any service or class of service to which this Act applies. (2) An order made under sub-section (1) shall be published in such manner as the Government considers sufficient to bring it to the notice of the persons affected by the order and shall remain in force for a period of six months: Provided that the government mayif satisfied and feels it expedient to do so, in the public interest, extend for any further period but not exceeding six months by one such order. [3} Upon the issue of the order under sub-section (1), - la) No person employed in any service or class of service to which this Act applies and to whom the order relates shall go, or remain on strike: and (b) any strike declared or commenced, whether before or after the issue of the order persons employed in any such service shall be illegal.