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Section 2: Emergency duties of Armed Forces

The Armed Forces (Emergency Duties) Act, 1947Central Act · Act 15 of 1947

(1) The Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare any specified service [in a State] to be a service of vital importance to the community:

Provided that such notification shall remain in force for one month in the first instance, but may be extended, from time to time, by a like notification.

(2) Upon a declaration being made under sub-section (1) and until it is rescinded, it shall be the duty of every person subject to [the Army Act, 1950 (46 of 1950) or the Air Force Act, 1950 (45 of 1950)], or * * * [the Navy Act, 1957 (62 of 1957)], to obey any command given by any superior officer in relation to employment upon or in connection with the service specified in the declaration; and every such command shall be deemed to be a lawful command within the meaning and for the purposes of the said Acts.

Where this provision sits

ActThe Armed Forces (Emergency Duties) Act, 1947
Section2
Marginal noteEmergency duties of Armed Forces
JurisdictionCentral
StatusIn force as published by the source

How this provision has been amended

Taken from the footnotes printed with the provision by the source. Where a footnote names the amending instrument, it is quoted as printed.

  • substituted, Act 3 of 1951. . Subs. by Act 3 of 1951, s. 3 and the Schedule, for "in a Part A State or a Part C State or, if so requested by the Government of a Part B State any specified service in that State".
  • substituted. . Subs. by s. 3 and the Schedule, ibid., for "the Indian Army Act, 1911, or the Indian Air Force Act, 1932".
  • omitted. . The words "the Naval Discipline Act, in the form in which it is set forth in the First Schedule to" omitted by the A.O. 1950.
  • substituted, Act 58 of 1960. . Subs. by Act 58 of 1960, s. 3 and the Second Schedule, for "the Indian Navy (Discipline) Act, 1934".

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