Section 2: Emergency duties of Armed Forces.

(1) The Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare any specified service 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(2) Upon a declaration being made under sub-section (1) and until it is rescinded, it shall be the duty of every person subject to the Army Act, 1950 (46 of 1950) or the Air Force Act, 1950 (45 of 1950), or [Omitted] the Navy Act, 1957 (62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.