Section 185
Conditions of service of Safai Karamcharis and others.
About this Act
An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to the administration of cantonments with a view to impart greater democratisation, improvement of their financial base to make provisions for developmental activities and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
(1)No person employed in any
service, or being employed in connection with the working of any system of public conservancy or
sanitation or water supply or hospitals or dispensaries or electric supply or public transport services or
such other essential services under a Board in any cantonment area, shall, in the absence of any contract,
resign without reasonable cause or absent himself from duty without proper authority and in case of such
resignation or absence from duty he shall be punishable with imprisonment which may extend to one
month; and the conditions of service specified herein shall, invariably be mentioned in the appointment
letter of the persons employed to said services.
(2) The Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, direct that on and from such date as may be specified in the notification, the provisions of this section shall apply in the case of any specified class of employees employed by a Board whose functions intimately concern the public health or safety.
(2) The Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, direct that on and from such date as may be specified in the notification, the provisions of this section shall apply in the case of any specified class of employees employed by a Board whose functions intimately concern the public health or safety.