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| (1) Where the President is of the opinion that -
| | (a) any service provided by any category of persons employed in any Government department or public corporation or local authority or co-operative society or branch thereof being a department or corporation or local authority or co-operative society which is engaged in the provision of any of the services specified in the Schedule to this Act, is likely to be impeded or interrupted; and | | |
| | (b) the maintenance of the service provided by that category of persons is essential to the life of the community. | | |
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| (2) During the continuance in force of an Order made under subsection (1) declaring the service provided by any category of persons employed in a Government department or public corporation or local authority or co-operative society or branch thereof being a department or public corporation or local authority or co-operative society engaged in the provision of any of the services specified in the Schedule to this Act, to be an essential public service
| | (a) any person who, on the day immediately preceding the date of such Order, was employed in that department or public corporation or local authority or co-operative society for the purposes of that service or who after that date is employed by that department or public corporation or local authority or co-operative society for the purposes of that service, falls or refuses to attend at his place of work or at such other place as may from time to time be designated by the head of that department or public corporation or local authority, or co operative society or a person acting under the authority of such head or fails or refuses to perform such work as he may be directed by the head of the department or public corporation or local authority or co-operative society or by a person acting under the authority of such head to perform or fails or refuses to perform such work within such time as is in the opinion of the head of that department or public corporation or local authority or co-operative society reasonable for the performance of such work: or | | |
| | (b)any person who in any manner
| | | (i) impedes, obstructs, delays or restricts the copying on of that service: or |
| (ii) impedes, obstructs or prevents any other person employed in that department or public corporation or local authority or co-operative society for the purposes of that service from attending at his place of work or |
| (iii) Incites, induces or other person employed in that department or public corporation or local authority or co-operative society for the purposes of that service to refrain from attending at his place of work; or |
| (iv) compels, Incites, induces or encourages any other person employed in that department or public corporation or local authority or co- operative society for the purposes of that service to depart from his place of work; or |
| (v) prevents any other person from accepting employment in, or in connection with, the carrying on of that service ; or |
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| | (c)any person who, by any physical act or by any speech or writing Incites, induces or encourages any other person to commit any act specified In paragraph (b) of this subsection (whether or not such other person commits in consequence any act so specified) shall be guilty of an offence under this Act. | | |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts