Section 2:
Emergency duties of Armed Forces
(1) The Central Government may, by notification in the
Official Gazette, declare any specified service 1[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.
(2) Upon a declaration being made under sub-section (1) and until it is rescinded, it shall be the duty
of every person subject to 2[the Army Act, 1950 (46 of 1950) or the Air Force Act, 1950 (45 of 1950)],
or 3* * * 4[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.
Notes:
1. 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".
2. Subs. by s. 3 and the Schedule, ibid., for "the Indian Army Act, 1911, or the Indian Air Force Act, 1932".
3. 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.
4. Subs. by Act 58 of 1960, s. 3 and the Second Schedule, for "the Indian Navy (Discipline) Act, 1934".