“public utility service”

The Legal Services Authorities Act, 1987 · s. 22A

(b) "public utility service" means any — - (i) transport service for the carriage of passengers or goods by air, road or water; or - (ii) postal, telegraph or telephone service; or - (iii) supply of power, light or water to the public by any establishment; or - (iv) system of public conservancy or sanitation; or - (v) service in hospital or dispensary; or - (vi)insurance service, and includes any service which the Central Government or the State Government, as the case may be, in the public interest, by notification, declare to be a public utility service for the purposes of this Chapter.

The Territorial Army Act, 1948 · s. 2

(dd) "public utility service" means any undertaking which supplies power, light, gas or water to the public, or carries on a public transport, or maintains any system of public conservancy or sanitation and which is declared, by notification in the Official Gazette, by the Central Government to be a public utility service to which this Act applies: Provided that no such modification shall be issued unless the Central Government is satisfied that, having regard to the needs of the Territorial Army, the persons employed in any such public utility service should, in the public interest, be made compulsorily liable for service in that Army under this Act;]