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    "id": 15039,
    "slug": "essential-services-maintenance-arunachal-pradesh-act-1993",
    "title": "Essential Services Maintenance (Arunachal Pradesh) Act, 1993",
    "short_title": "Essential Services Maintenance (Arunachal Pradesh) Act, 1993",
    "act_number": "(Act No. 4 of 1994)",
    "act_year": 1993,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Arunachal Pradesh",
    "law_status": "unknown",
    "enactment_date": null,
    "description": "Essential Services Maintenance (Arunachal Pradesh) Act, 1993",
    "preamble": "",
    "section_label": "Section",
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        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Short title, extent and commencement.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Definitions.",
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            "content": "(a) \"essential service\" means -\n(i) any transport service for the carriage of passengers or goods, by land of water with respect to which the State Legislature has power 10 make laws ;\n(ii) any service connected with the supply of water, electricity or any other essential commodity ;\n(iii) any service connected with the maintenance of public health and sanitation, including hospitals and dispensaries;\n(iv) any public service and posts in connection with the affairs of the State ; and also persons appointed to the secretariat staff of the State Legislative Assembly ;\n(v) Any other service or employment or class thereof, connected with matters with respect to which the State Legislature has power to make laws and which the State Government is of opinion that strikes in such service, employment, or class thereof, would pre-judicially affect the maintenance of any public utility service, public safety or the maintenance of supplies (including air supplies) or services essential to the life of the community or would result in the infliction of grave hardship on the community, and which the State Government by notification in the official Gazette declare to be an essential service for the purposes of this Act;\n(b) \"strike\" means the cessation of work by a body of persons employed in any essential service acting in combination or a concerted refusal or a refusal under a common understanding of any number of persons who are or who have been so employed to continue to work or to accept employment, and includes-\n(i) failure to attend at, or absence from, the place of work on any working day or during any working hours, without obtaining the necessary permission therefore of the authority competent to grant such permission ;\n(ii) refusal to work overtime where such work is necessary for the maintenance of any essential service ;\n(iii) any other conduct which is likely to result in, or results in, cessation or substantial retardation or work in any essential service.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Power to prohibit strikes in certain employments.",
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            "content": "(a) no person employed in any essential service to which the order relates shall go or remain on strike ;\n(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.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Penalty for illegal strikes.",
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            "content": "",
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            "sort_order": 3
        },
        {
            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Penalty for instigation etc.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 4
        },
        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Penalty for giving financial aid.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 5
        },
        {
            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Disciplinary action besides above penalty.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 6
        },
        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. Power to arrest without warrant and to seize vehicles. Offences non- bailable.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 7
        },
        {
            "number": "102",
            "title": "9. Provisions of section 102 of Act 2 of 1974 to apply to seizure.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 8
        },
        {
            "number": "10",
            "title": "10. Act to override other laws.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 9
        },
        {
            "number": "11",
            "title": "11. Bar of legal proceedings.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 10
        }
    ],
    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "[aru034]",
        "Act Number": "(Act No. 4 of 1994)",
        "Enactment Date": "",
        "Act Year": "1993",
        "Short Title": "Essential Services Maintenance (Arunachal Pradesh) Act, 1993",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Arunachal Pradesh"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:19"
}