2. Emergency duties of Armed Forces
The Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare any specified service [in a State] to be a service of vital importance to the community:
Provided that such notification shall remain in force for one month in the first instance, but may be extended, from time to time, by a like notification.
Upon a declaration being made under sub-section (1) and until it is rescinded, it shall be the duty of every person subject to [the Army Act, 1950 (46 of 1950) or the Air Force Act, 1950 (45 of 1950)], or * * * [the Navy Act, 1957 (62 of 1957)], to obey any command given by any superior officer in relation to employment upon or in connection with the service specified in the declaration; and every such command shall be deemed to be a lawful command within the meaning and for the purposes of the said Acts.
Amendment notes (4)
- Subs . Subs. by Act 3 of 1951, s. 3 and the Schedule, for "in a Part A State or a Part C State or, if so requested by the Government of a Part B State any specified service in that State".
- Subs . Subs. by s. 3 and the Schedule, ibid., for "the Indian Army Act, 1911, or the Indian Air Force Act, 1932".
- omitted . The words "the Naval Discipline Act, in the form in which it is set forth in the First Schedule to" omitted by the A.O. 1950.
- Subs . Subs. by Act 58 of 1960, s. 3 and the Second Schedule, for "the Indian Navy (Discipline) Act, 1934".