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Industrial Relations Ordinance (XXIII or 1969)-- ----Ss. 50, 34 & 22B(3)(b)----Interpretation of settlement, application for--­Petitioner Union who reached a settlement with company praying for interpretation of a clause of settlement---Number of objections had been raised as to legality and maintainability of petition---Parties had agreed that in case of difference of opinion on implementation, the petitioner might challenge decision of management in an appropriate forum---Management had initially accepted to implement notification which they said was operative--- Management subsequently stated that at time of writing down relevant clause of settlement the management did not have decision of Labour Court or the Notification in its possession on negotiating table---Management's contention was that the Notification in question was inoperative and same having not been issued in pursuance of any law it was merely an administrative order and no penalty was prescribed in case of its non-compliance---Held, Notification in question being legally inoperative, petitioner had no case---Petition dismissed being without any legal merit. issed. ORDER The petitioner Union reached a settlement with respondent-Company on 26-9-1989. Clause XXI of that settlement provided as follows:- "The Management shall implement the provisions of Notification No. SOG-II-6-129/73, dated 16-7-1973 under which pulses/cloth at subsidized rates are to be provided by the Company. In case the said notification is inoperative the decision to that effect shall be furnished by the Management within two months from the date of this settlement. The parties may challenge the decision in an appropriate forum if the difference of opinion on its implementation is not settled mutually. In case the Management is unable to furnish the said decision within the stipulated period the implementation of the notification allowing the subsidy shall become operative." 2.Accordingly the respondent-Management sent a letter on 22-11-1989 which is produced below:- "Kindly refer to Clause XXI (Supply of Pulses and Cloth) of the Memorandum of Settlement dated 26th September, 1989 stipulating that the company shall…

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