' In this appeal the decision, dated 15th January, 1980 passed by the learned Presiding (Meer, Punjab Labour Court No, 6 Rawalpindi has been challenged, whereby the grievance petition of the appellant for his reinstatement in service was dismissed.
2. The appeal of the appellant fails on the short ground that the grievance notice was given to the respondent not by the appellant but by his lawyer. The learned counsel for the appellant admits this fact. An application for additional evidence was made on 9th December, 1981 for the production of another grievance notice sent by the appellant himself. No copy of the grievance notice is with the application for additional evidence. The date of second grievance notice is also not disclosed in the application for additional evidence. A photostat copy of the postal receipt is on the record but since no copy of the second grievance notice has been brought, nor the date has been given on which the second notice is alleged to have been sent, the receipt cannot be tallied with the said notice to find out if it relates to the previous notice sent by the lawyer or to the second notice alleged to have been sent by the appellant himself. The learned counsel for the respondent says that no second notice was received from the appellant and that the only notice which was received by the respondent was sent by the lawyer. According to section 25-A (1), a grievance notice can be given by the workman himself or by his shop steward or the C. B. A. There is no provision in the said section that a notice can be given by a lawyer. When law provides a method by which an act is to be done, the said act should be done in that manner and not otherwise and if the act is not done according to the provision of law; the same cannot be said to be valid, So the grievance notice sent by the lawyer is not valid and for this reason the very grievance petition was not competent. In view of this defect the learned counsel for the appellant has not argued the appeal on merits. There is no force in the appeal, which is dismissed.