-(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires.-
(a) "essential service" means
(i) any public service in connection with the affairs of the State of Rajasthan;
(ii) any service under the educational institutions recognised by the Director of Education, Rajasthan, or by the Board of Secondary Education,Rajasthan;
(iii) any service under a local authority;
(iv) any other service connected with matters with respect to which the State Legislature has power to make laws and which the State Government being of opinion that strikes therein would prejudicially affect the maintenance of any public utility service, the public safety or the maintenance of supplies and services necessary for the life of the community or would result in the infliction of grave hardship on the community, may, by notification in the official Gazette, declare to be an essential service for the purposes of this Act:
Provided that the State Government shall not make a declaration under this sub-clause in respect of a service connected with matters enumerated in List III in the Seventh Schedule of the Constitution, if the Central Government has made any declaration under sub-clause (xvii) of clause (a) of sub-section (1) of section 2 of the Essential Services Maintenance Act, 1981 (Central Act No. 40 of 1981) in respect of such service;; and
(b)" strike" means any cessation of work (including any authorised absence from duty) by a body of persons employed in any essential service acting in combination or a concerted refusal or a refusal under a common understanding or any number of persons who are or have been so employed to continue to work or to accept employment, and includes,
(i) refusal to work over-time where such work is necessary for the maintenance of any essential service.
(ii) any other conduct which is likely to result in or results in cessation or substantial retardation of work in any essential service.
(2) Every notification issued under sub-clause (iv) of clause (a) of subsection (1) shall be laid before the House of the State Legislature immediately after it is made if it is in session and on the first day of the commencement of the next session of the House if it is not in session, and shall cease to operate at the expiration of forty days from the date of its being so laid or from the re-assembly of the State Legislature, as the case may be, unless before the expiration of that period a resolution approving the issue of the notification is passed by the House of the State Legislature."