Section 5A. Special composition of Tribunal.

2[5-A.(1) Where any industrial dispute may be referred to an Industrial Tribunal under section 4-K, the State Government, if, having regard to the nature of the dispute and the effect which its decision is likely to have on industry or any section thereof, or if the dispute is such as is likely to affect more than one industrial establishment, it so considers necessary, may constitute, notwithstanding anything in the said section, a tribunal consisting of three persons of whom one to be designated by the State Government, shall be the Chairman. (2) Except as provided in sub-section (1) all the provisions of this Act relating to the constitution of an Industrial Tribunal, the qualification and disqualification of persons to be appointed thereto, the powers and duties of such tribunals ; the procedure to be followed by it in the hearing and disposal of industrial disputes, the making of the award, its modification and enforcement shall mutatis mutandis apply to a Tribunal constituted under this section.