The Gujarat Essential Services Maintenance Act, 1972

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    "title": "The Gujarat Essential Services Maintenance Act, 1972",
    "short_title": "The Gujarat Essential Services Maintenance Act, 1972",
    "act_number": "Gujarat Act No. 23 of 1972",
    "act_year": 1972,
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    "location": "Gujarat",
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    "description": "The Gujarat Essential Services Maintenance Act, 1972",
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            "content": "(a) \"essential service\"s means,\n(i) all employment under the State Government (including all officers and servants of the State Legislature Secretariat and of the High Curt);\n(ii) any other employment or class of employment connected with matters with respect to which the State Legislature has power to make laws, in respect of which the State Government is of the opinion that strikes in such employment or class of employment would prejudicially affect the maintenance of any public utility service, the public safety or the maintenance of 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 declares, by notification in the Official Gazette, 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 have been so employed to continue to work or to accept employment, and includes,\n(i) refusal to work overtime, where such work is necessary for the maintenance of any essential service;\n(ii) any other conduct which is likely to result in, or results in, cessation of substantial retardation of 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.",
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            "title": "4. Penalty for illegal strikes.",
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            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Penalty for giving financial aid to illegal strike.",
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            "title": "7. Section 4, 5 or 6 in addition to disciplinary action.",
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        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. Power to arrest without warrant and offences to be non-bailable.",
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        "Act Number": "Gujarat Act No. 23 of 1972",
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        "Act Year": "1972",
        "Short Title": "The Gujarat Essential Services Maintenance Act, 1972",
        "Type": "STATE",
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    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:19"
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