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Definition :

Newspaper establishment, means an establishment under the control of any person or body of persons, whether incorporated or not, for the production or publication of one or more newspapers or for conducting any news agency or syndicate and includes newspaper establishments specified as one establishment under the schedule. [Working Journalists and Other Newspaper Employees (Conditions of Service) and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1955 (45 of 1955), s. 2(d)]

The definition of the term 'newspaper establishment' is provided for on understanding of the statutory provisions to facilitate brevity and to avoid all that is mentioned in the definition being repeated over and over again. If the Act itself provides for the basis of classification, namely, the taking into consideration the capacity to pay or to any other circumstances which may seem relevant to the person making the representation in relation to his representation as has been specifically provided for in s. 10(2), the recommendations and the order made thereon alone indicate the criteria to be adopted by the Board for classifying the various categories of news media specified in the definition, Press Trust of India v. Union of India, AIR 1974 SC 1044 (1052): (1974) 4 SCC 638: (1975) 3 SCR 499.