Section 1. (I) This Act may be called the Trade Dispntes Act, Shorttltle, extent, com

extent, commeueement and drlration --- -" -- (2) I t extends to the whole of British India, including British Baluchistan and the Sonthal Parganas. (3) I t shall come into force on such date as the Governor General in Council may, by notification in the Gazette of India, appoint. extent, commeueement and drlration --- -" -- Reference o j Disputes lo Courts und Bouvcls. 1. Short %itle, extent, commencement and duration. extent, commeueement and drlration --- -" -- 1. (I) This Act may be called the Trade Dispntes Act, Shorttltle, extent, com- `1929.` meueement drlration extent, commeueement and drlration --- -" --.-. extent, commeueement and drlration --- -" -- - `(4)` any railway service which the Governor General in Co~incil may, by notification in the Gazette of India, declare to be a public utility ~ervice for the purposes of this Act; or - `(ii)` any postal, telegraph or telephone service; or - `(iii)` any industry, business or undertaJ~ing which supplies light or water to the public; or - (iv) any system of public conservancy or sanitation ; - (h,) " railway company " means a railway company as defined in section 3 of the Indian Railways Act, I X O ~ 1890; 1800. `(i)` " strike " means a cessation of work by a body of persons employed in any trade or industry acting in combination, or a concerted refusal, or a refusal under a comnion understanding, of any number of persons who are or have been so employed to continue to work or to accept employment; " trade dispute " means any dispute or difference between employers and workmen, or between workmen and workmen, which is connected with the employment or non-employment or the terms of the employment, or with the conditions of labour, of any pereoq ; and - (k) " workman : OR `1929.1` Trade Dispute$. - (JC) " workman " means any person employed in any trade or industry to do any skilled or unskilled manual or olorioal work foi, hire ur rewa,rcl, but does not include any person employed in the naval, military or air service of the Crown or in the Royal Indian Marine Service.