Jharkhand Gazette, No. 945, 16 December 2019

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,78/EPS/2019/103 2 ( 78/EPS/2019/103 (a) The above provisions require that all the electors who are employees of establishments and shops including those who work on shift basis shall be granted a paid holiday on the day of poll in the Constituency where a General/bye-election is to be held. Further, there may be cases where a person is ordinarily resident of the Constituency and registered as an elector, may be serving/employed in an industrial undertaking or an establishment located outside the Constituency having a general/bye-election. It is clarified that in such a situation, even those electors including casual workers working outside the constituency concerned would be entitled to the benefit of a paid holiday extended under Section-135B(1) of the Representation of the People Act, 1951.