Essential Services Maintenance Act, 1968
3. Power to prohibit
strikes in certain employments. –
1.
Power
to prohibit strikes in certain employments. If the Central Government is
satisfied that in the public interest it is necessary or expedient so to do, it
may, by general or 67 special Order, prohibit' strikes in any essential service
specified in the Order.
2.
An
Order made under sub-section (1) shall be published in such manner as the
Central Government considers best calculated to bring it to, the notice of the
persons affected by the Order.
3.
An
Order made under sub-section (1) shall be in force for six months only, but the
Central Government may, by a like Order, extend it for any period not exceeding
six months if it is satisfied that in the public interest it is necessary or
expedient so to do.
4.
Upon
the issue of an Order under sub-section (I),-
a.
no
person employed in any essential service to which the Order relates shall go or
remain on strike ;
b.
any
strike declared or commenced, whether before or after the issue of the Order,
by persons employed in any such service shall be illegal.