Section 2

any situation, affecting the remunerations or terms or conditions of service of any public officer or class or group of public officers and arising from the implementation of the recommendations of a salaries commission, that constitutes a departure or deviation from the principles underlying the recommendations of the salaries commission and which remains a departure or deviation from the principles in the recommendations of the Cabinet Committee; or

any situation, affecting the remunerations or terms or conditions of service of any public officer or class or group of public officers and arising from the implementation of the recommendations of the Cabinet Committee, that constitutes a departure or deviation from the principles underlying the recommendations of the Cabinet Committee; or but does not include any situation that creates another anomaly to arise in consequence only of the determination of an anomaly under this Act;

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"Cabinet Committee" means the Cabinet Committee appointed by Cabinet to examine the Revised Report of the Royal Salaries Commission, 1975;

"Government" means the Federal Government or a State Government;

"proscribed industrial action" means-

any act or omission by any public officer which is intended to or does result in any limitation or restriction or cessation of or dilatoriness in the performance or execution of the whole or any part of the duties connected with his employment; or

any refusal or failure by any public officer to comply with any direction issued by his superior officer in regard to the performance of the duties of his employment, where such refusal or failure is intended to or does result in any limitation or reduction or cessation of or dilatoriness in the performance or execution of the whole or any part of the duties connected with his employment; or

any act or omission by any public officer which is described in the Schedule to be a proscribed industrial action for the purpose of this Act;

"public officer" means any person holding any office or employment in or under any public service;

"public service" means

any of the public services referred to in Article 132 of the Constitution, other than the police force and the armed forces;

any local authority;

any statutory authority established under any Federal or State law;

the parliamentary service; and

any person, tribunal, body, institution or authority whatsoever which may be declared by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, by order published in the Gazette, to be a public service for the purpose of this definition;

"salaries commission" means the Suffian Commission, the Aziz Commission and the Harun Commission appointed to inquire, review and report and make recommendations on the remunerations and terms and conditions of service in the public service;

"Special

"strike" means cessation of work by a body of persons employed in the public service acting in combination, or a concerted refusal or a refusal under a common understanding of a number of persons who are or who have been so employed to continue to work or to accept employment;

"trade union" means any association or combination of public officers registered under any law relating to the registration of trade unions, but does not include a federation of trade unions.