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AN ACT TO PREVENT PERSONS WHO TAKE PART IN A STRIKE IN ANY INDUSTRY FROM REMAINING, IN FURTHERANCE OF THAT STRIKE, IN THE PREMISES IN WHICH THAT INDUSTRY IS CARRIED ON
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[12th April
, 1955 ]
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Short title.
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1. This Act may be cited as the Stay-in Strikes Act.
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Strikers in an industry who, in furtherance of the strike, remain in the premises where the industry is carried on, to be guilty of an offence.
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2. Where any person taking part in a strike in any industry remains, in furtherance of that strike, in the premises in which that industry is carried on, he-
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(a) shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction after summary trial before a Magistrate, be liable to imprisonment of either description for a term not exceeding three months, or to a fine not exceeding one hundred rupees, or to both such imprisonment and such fine, and
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(b) may be arrested without warrant and be ejected
from those premises by any police officer not below the rank of Inspector of Police.
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Interpretation.
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3. In this Act, the expression ” industry ” has the same meaning as in the Industrial Disputes Act, and the expression ” strike ” has the same meaning as in the Trade Unions Ordinance.
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| Chapter 41, Volume No. 2 page No. 223. |
