Section 3: Power to prohibit strikes In essential services

Essential Services (Prevention of Strikes) Ordinance, 1951Ordinance · 1951

(2) The Central Government may, if satisfied that public interest so requires, by notification in the Official Gazette, prohibit strikes in any essential service specified in the notification witĥ m such area and for such period as may be so specified: W

Provided that the period so specified shall not, in the first instance, exceed six months, but may, by a like notification, be extended by any period not exceeding six months if, in the opinion of the Central Government, public interest requires such extension.

'{2) Upon the Issue of a notification under sub-section (1),—

(a) no person employed in any essential service to which it relates shall go or remain on strike; and (•!)) any strike declared or commenced, whether before or after the issue of the notification, by persons employed in any such essential service, shall be illegal.

Where this provision sits

Act	Essential Services (Prevention of Strikes) Ordinance, 1951
Section	3
Marginal note	Power to prohibit strikes In essential services
Status	In force as published by the source

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