23. Where the Minister of Labour and Manpower has received a notification contemplated in section 54 of the Labour Code before 19 December 1975, from a party to the negotiations relating to the establishments, he shall forthwith send a copy thereof, for the commissioner for essential services, to the clerk of the Court.
The notification shall then be deemed, for the purposes of section 10 of this act, to have been sent on 19 December 1975.