(b)
(c)
hardship upon the community;
it is an offence to commence or continue, or
apply any sums in support of, an illegal
strike or lock-out;
it is an offence to declare, instigate, incite
others to take part in, or otherwise act in
furtherance of, a strike or lock-out;
provided that no person shall be deemed to
have committed an offence by reason only of
his having ceased work or refused to continue
work or to accept employment;
and in Section 5 that :-
(a)
it is an offence for a person employed by
the Crown or a private concern in certain
essential services (defined as water,
electricity and gas supplies, tram, bus and
ferry services, telephone and sanitary
services) wilfully and without due notice to
break his contract of service, knowing or
having reasonable cause to believe that the
probable consequence, failing the adoption
of extraordinary measures, would be to
deprive the community or a substantial part
of it of such services or to endanger
human life or property.
4. Section 5 seeks to delay strikes in essential
services in pursuance of a trade dispute by making it
an offence wilfully to break a contract of service,
i.e. other than by due notice within the terms of
the contract. Section 3 seeks to prohibit strikes
and lock-outs in essential services having an object
other than, or in addition to, the furtherance of a
trade dispute.
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