Case: Lloyds Bank Limited Vs. Lloyds Bank Indian Staff Association &amp; Others

The objection is that the award was passed on 5.1.1950 and was published under S. 17, Industrial Disputes Act, 1947, by the Government in a notification of the Ministry of Labour dated 17.1.1950 and was also declared binding on the same day for a period of one year.

Reasoning:
Article 136 has, therefore, no. application to the award as it has been held by this Court that the said article has no. retrospective operation. This is not disputed by Mr. S. Chaudhuri but he argues that the award was really published only on 28.1.1950, when the notification referred to above appeared in the Gazette of India. We see no. force in this argument. The preliminary objection is allowed and the appeal is dismissed with costs.