Section 41: Fifteen days' notice to be given by workers in essential services before ceasing work.

(1) Without prejudice to section 18 of this Act, if any worker employed in any essential service ceases, whether alone or in combination with others, to perform the work which he is employed to perform without giving his employer at least fifteen days' notice of his intention to do so, he shall, unless he proves that at the time when he ceased to perform that work he did not know, or had no cause to believe, that the probable consequences of his or their doing so would be to deprive the community or any part of the community either wholly or to a substantial extent of that or any other essential service, be guilty of an offence and be liable on conviction to a fine of N 100 or to imprisonment for six months.
(2) If a worker to whom subsection (1) of this section applies is entitled to terminate his contract of employment by giving to his employer less than fifteen days' notice, and does in fact give to his employer less than fifteen days notice for that purpose, then-
(a) he shall be deemed to have given to his employer at the same time in pursuance of subsection (1) of this section, notice that he intends to cease work at the end of the period of fifteen days beginning with the day following that on which he gave the notice; and
(b) for any period for which he is by virtue of that subsection required to go on working after the termination of his contract of employment he shall be entitled to be paid as if his contract of employment had remained in force until the end of that period.
(3) No proceedings for an offence under this section shall be instituted except by or with the consent of the Attorney-General of the Federation or the Attorney-General of the State in which the offence is alleged to have been committed.