Section 33. Where, immediately before the 29th May, 1965, any industrial dispute regarding payment of bonus rela

33. Where, immediately before the 29th May, 1965, any industrial dispute regarding payment of bonus relating to any accounting year, not being an accounting year earlier than the accounting year ending on any day in the year 1962, was pending before the appropriate Government or before any Tribunal or other authority under the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947, or under any corres- 63 of 1951. 14 of 1947. SEC. 1] THE GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY ponding law relating to investigation and settlement of industrial disputes in a State, then, the bonus shall be payable in accordance with the provisions of this Act in relation to the accounting year to which the dispute relates and any subsequent accounting year, notwithstanding that in respect oi tiiat subsequent accounting year no such dispute was pending. Explanation.—A dispute shall be deemed to be pending before the appropriate Government where no decision of that Government on any application made to it under the said Act or such corresponding law for reference of that dispute to adjudication has been made or where having received the report of the Conciliation Officer (by whatever designation known) under the said Act or law, the appropriate Government has not passed any order refusing to make such reference.