Unless the context or subject means otherwise, in this Act;
(a) “Essential Service” means the following service:
(1) Post Office, telegram or telephone service,
(2) Transportation service transporting the passengers or goods from the water, land or air transport,
(3) Service relating to civil aviation office or the function of control of aircraft, operation or repair of the same,
(4) Service relating to airport, railway station or the function to transport goods, keep, withdraw or store in the governmental
store house,
(5) Service relating to mint or governmental press,
(6) Any service of defense affairs of Government of Nepal relating to the function of arms, ammunition or production of
any military goods, storing, distributing, and
(7) Any other service prescribed by the Government of Nepal by publishing a notice in the Nepal gazette.
(b) “Strike” means the preplanned or collective action of stopping the function of essential service or denying to accomplish or continue
the function by all or some persons among those being assigned or appointed for any essential service.