JUDGMENT

KRISHNA IYER, J.:—Brevity is a necessity in a judgment which proceeds substantially on a consensus among counsel as regards the manner of disposal. Therefore we will be brief in narrating a few facts stating a little law and proceeding straight to the directions to be issued in the light of the controversy arising herein. However, we may indicate even here that there is one question of law which is contentious on which we propose to indicate our view in a general way. This we do because counsel on both sides have pressed that it will be helpful since the High Court has laid down its interpretation with which we do not agree.

2. The Maharashtra (Recognition of Trade Unions and Prevention of Unfair Labour Practices) Act, 1971 (for short, the Act) although passed by the legislature in 1971, was, for inscrutable reasons, brought into force on 8th September, 1975. Whether this can be called laws delay or implementation gap is a matter of phraseology but the fact is that when the legislature makes a law (especially, welfare law for the weaker section of the community) it is implicit that the benefits of the legislation to the consumers thereof shall not be delayed by the Executiv