'Industry' Definition Reference : Live Updates From Supreme Court 9-Judge Bench Hearing

AG: Pressing demands of the competing sectors of employers and employees and the helplessness of legislature and executive in bringing into force the Amendment Act compel us to make this reference.

AG: We do not consider it necessary to say anything more and leave it to the larger Bench to give such meaning and effect to the definition clause in the present context with the experience of all these years and keeping in view the amended definition of `industry' kept dormant for long 23 years.

AG: Now that we have reached the 2020 code, couple of questions that arise

1. what is the public purpose will be served to say that the bangalore water supply was not a new law?

if the court were to say its good law then the new code will receive colour from this judgment.

AG: For the past 23 years, the amended definition has remained unenforced on the statute book.

AG: In response to the Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board case, the Parliament intervened and substituted the definition of `industry' by including within its meaning some activities of the government and excluding some other specified governmental activities and `public utility services' involving sovereign functions.

AG: continues to read the 2005 judgment

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AG: Reads the dissenting opinion of Justice Jaswant Singh in Bangalore Water supply case.

AG: continues to read the Jai Bir Singh judgment.

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