Section 7
Section 7
(2)
His Majesty in Council may make regulations prescribing the form and manner in which the notice refer-red to in the preceding subsection shall be rendered.
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(3)
Every person who incites or instigates or in any way encourages, persuades or influences a person employed in an essential service to break or terminate his contract of service, knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that the probable consequences of that employed person so doing, either alone or in combination with others, would be to deprive the public, wholly or to a great extent, of the service, shall be guilty of an offence: Penalty, imprisonment for 3 months and with a fine of $6,000.
(4)
Every employer in an essential service shall cause to be posted up on all premises used for the purposes of that service, a printed copy of this section in some conspi-cuous place where the same may conveniently be read by persons employed therein, and as often as such copy becom-es defaced, obliterated, destroyed or removed, shall cause it to be replaced with all reasonable despatch.
(5)
Every employer, other than the Government, who fails to comply with the provisions of the immediately preceding subsection shall be guilty of an offence: Penalty, a fine of $500 for every day during which he fails to comply.
( 6) Every person who unlawfully injures, defaces, obliterates, destroys or removes any printed copy of this section posted up as required by subsection (3) hereof shall be guilty of an offence punishable with a fine of $3,000.
(7)
For the purposes of this section-
(a)
the following public services shall each be an essential service, namely, electricity, fire, gas, health, hospital, sanitary, water, together with any other service to which His Majesty in Council has declared that this Act applies;
(b)
save as is otherwise provided in this Act,
"employer" includes the Government and the
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includes a person employed by the Government.