DECISION This is an appeal against an award of the learned Presiding Officer of the Sind Labour Court No. II, in an application under section 3-A of the Ordinance No. XVl of 1960 read with section 25-A of the Industrial Relations Ordinance of 1969 as amended by Oidinance No. IX of 1972, dated the 27th of September 1972 whereby he did not entertain the various claims of the applicant on the ground that the Management had unfettered right to dispense with the services of its employees after giving Notice Notice Pay. The learned Advocate for the appellant did not challenge this position in law. He, however, relied on section 4, sub-clause (c) of the Working Journalists (Conditions cf Service) Ordinance, 1960 (hereinafter called the 'Act') and submitted that his client was entitled to three months' Notice Pay. The question, however, is whether the periodical in which the appellant was serving is covered by the definition of "Newspaper". It reads as under:-- "
'Newspaper* means any printed periodical work containing public news or comments on public news and includes such other class of printed periodical work as may, from time to time, be notified in this behalf by the Provincial Government in the official Gazette."
2. This point was taken in the Reply Statement of the respondent that the periodical is a Special Journal dealing with Economy. It is for the appellant to have proved that the said Economic Journal was notified by the Provincial Government in the official Gazette. There is nothing on the record to show that the said Journal which is Monthly JournalA was ever notified in the official Gazette.
3. I would hold that it is not a "Newspaper" and therefore, the provisions of the Act did not apply. The appeal in the result is dismissed. Appeal dismissed.