Haryana Essential Services Maintenance Act, 1974

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    "slug": "haryana-essential-services-maintenance-act-1974",
    "title": "Haryana Essential Services Maintenance Act, 1974",
    "short_title": "Haryana Essential Services Maintenance Act, 1974",
    "act_number": "Haryana Act No. 40 of 1974",
    "act_year": 1974,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Haryana",
    "law_status": "unknown",
    "enactment_date": null,
    "description": "Haryana Essential Services Maintenance Act, 1974",
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        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Short title and extent.",
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            "content": "Object & Reasons 6\nStatements of Objects and Reasons - Haryana Act 40 of 1974\nStatements of Objects and Reasons - Haryana Act 12 of 1981",
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            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Definitions.",
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            "content": "\"(a) \"employment\" includes employment of any nature whether paid or unpaid.\n(b) \"Government\" means the Government of the State of Haryana;\n(c) \"prescribed\" means prescribed by rules made under this Act.\n[(d) Strike \"means the cessation of work by a body of persons employed in any employment to which this act applies acting in combination or a concerted refusal, or a refusal under a common understanding of any number of persons, who are or have been so employed to continue to work or to accept employment, and includes -\n(i) Mass casual leave in pursuance of a common understanding among the persons who avail themselves of such leaves or under the direction of an other persons or persons;\n(ii) Refusal to work overtime where such work is necessary for the maintenance of work in any employment to which this act applies; or\n(iii) Any other conduct which is likely to result in, or results, in cessation or substantial retardation of work in any employment to which this act applies]",
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            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Employment to which Act applies.",
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            "content": "(i) to all employment under the Government;\n(ii) to any other employment or class of employment which the Government being of the opinion that such employment or class of employment is essential for securing the public safety, the maintenance of public order, health or sanitation, or for maintaining supplies or services necessary for the life of the community, may, by notification, declare.",
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        {
            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Power to order persons engaged in certain employment to remain in specified areas.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "4A",
            "title": "4A. Power to Prohibit Strike.",
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            "content": "(a) no person employed in any employment or class of employment to which this act applies and to whom the order relates shall go or remain on strike; and\n(b) any strike declared or commenced, whether before or after the issue of the order, by persons employed in any such employment, shall be legal.]",
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        {
            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Offences.",
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            "content": "(a) disobeys any lawful order given to him in the course of such employment;\n(b) without reasonable excuse abandons such employment or absents himself from work;\n(c) depart from any area specified in an order made under sub-section (1) of section 4 without the consent of the authority making the order;\n[(d) himself takes part in, instigates, or incites other persons to take part in, or otherwise acts in furtherance of, any illegal strike; or\n(e) knowingly expends or supplies any money in furtherance or support of any illegal strike;]\n(a) discontinues the employment of such person; or\n(b) by closing an establishment in which such person is engaged causes the discontinuance of his employment;",
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            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Regulation of wages and conditions of service.",
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        {
            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Penalties and procedure.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) \"company\" means any body corporate, and includes a firm or other association of individuals; and\n(b) \"director\" in relation to a firm means a partner in the firm.",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 7
        },
        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. Indemnity.",
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            "content": "",
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        },
        {
            "number": "9",
            "title": "9. Over-riding effect of orders, rules, etc. made under the Act.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "10",
            "title": "10. Repeal.",
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    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "hl203",
        "Act Number": "Haryana Act No. 40 of 1974",
        "Enactment Date": "",
        "Act Year": "1974",
        "Short Title": "Haryana Essential Services Maintenance Act, 1974",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Haryana"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:19"
}