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Artisan

Artisan, the expression 'artisan' has to be understood as widely as possible and without regard to his skill. Nevertheless, he must be both a workman and an artisan of some kind, Chandigarh Admn. v. Mehar Singh, 1992 Supp (3) SCC 43 (45): 1992 SCC (L&S) 990. [Fundamental Rules, R. 56 (b)]The word 'artisan', has to be understood in common parlance in a wider sense as an art or an artist or one employed in any of the industrial arts or produces an article of commercial value or utility with manual dexterity, either by manual labour or with the help of tools or machine and brings into existence a product for sale or service, State of Orissa v. Adwait Charan Mohanty, 1995 Supp (1) SCC 470 (475). [Orissa Service Code, Rule 71 (a), Note to second Proviso]...

Artisans

Artisans, artificers. The (English) Artisans and Labourers' Dwellings Act, 1868 (31 & 32 Vict. c. 130), repealed and re-enacted with amendments by the (English) Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890 (since extended and amended), made provision for taking down or improving dwellings occupied by working men and their families, which were unfit for human habitation, and for the building and maintenance of better dwellings for them instead. As amended in 1874, the Act applied to the Metropolis except the City, to municipal boroughs, and urban sanitary districts. See HOUSING OF THE WORKING CLASSES....

Unclaimed property

Unclaimed property. This devolves on the Crown at Common Law. Unclaimed property may be dealt with under the heads of (1) Government Stock, (2) Chancery Funds, (3) Stock in Public Companies, (4) Bankers' Balances, (5) Deposits with Bankers for Safe Custody, and (6) Found Property.(1) Government Stock.-The National Debt Act, 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 71), ss. 51 et seq., as extended by 20 & 21 Geo. 5, c. 28, s. 49 provides that stock on which no dividend has been claimed for ten years must be transferred to the National Debt Commissioners. Lists of names in which the stock stood, with residence, description and amount of stock and date of transfer, are to be kept at the Bank of England [or Ireland, but see 13 Geo. 5, c. 2, s. 6 (d)] and at the National Debt Office, open to inspection, and also kept in duplicate at the National Debt Office. The stock may be re-transferred to persons showing title after, in the case of stock exceeding 20l., three months' public notice by advertisement. A sec...

Labourers' dwellings

Labourers' dwellings. Prior to 1890 the following five sets of enactments provided for the erection and maintenance of healthy 'labourers' dwellings,' the first three of the five being materially amended by the (English) Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1885 (48 & 49 Vict. c. 72):(1) The (English) Labouring Classes Lodging Houses and Dwelling Houses Acts, 1851, 1866, and 1867. These Acts might be 'adopted' by the town council of a borough and other local authorities. Upon the adoption of the Acts, corporate land might be appropriated and lodging-houses erected thereon, or money might be borrowed by the local authorities for erecting such houses on other land.The (English) Act of 1885 amended the procedure for adopting these Acts, allowed land to be bought for the purpose of the Acts, and allowed separate houses to be erected under the process of the Acts.The (English) Act of 1885 took away from an owner, required to demolish such dwellings, the power which he had under these Acts of...

Traditional occupation

Traditional occupation, 'traditional occupation' means an occupation followed in a family in which it is handed down by an ancestor to his posterity. If there is a s. of the population following an occupa-tion of that description that s. can be regarded as a class. Such occupations are generally occupations in which some special skills are necessary like those of an artisan or a craftsman, Janki Prasad Parimoo v. State of Jammu and Kashmir, AIR 1973 SC 930 (939): (1973) 1 SCC 420: (1973) 3 SCR 236....

Decorator

One who decorates adorns or embellishes specifically an artisan whose business is the decoration of houses esp their interior decoration...

Village industry

Village industry, means:(i) any industry located in rural area which produces any goods or renders any service with or without the use of power and in which the fixed capital investment per head of an artisan or a worker does not exceed fifty thousand rupees or such other sum as may, by notification in the Official Gazette, be specified from time to time by the State Govern-ment:Provided that any industry specified in the schedule and located in an area other than a rural area and recognized as a village industry prior to coming into force of this Act shall notwithstanding anything contained in this sub-clause, continue to be a village industry under this Act.(ii) any other non-manufacturing unit established for the sole purpose of promoting, maintaining, assist-ing, servicing (including other units) or managing, any village industry.(iii) Any other industry specified in this behalf by the State Government, by notification in the Official Gazette, in consultation with the Board. [Gujar...

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