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Competent authority, means (i) the speaker in the case of the House of the people or the legislative Assembly of a State or a Union Territory having such Assembly and the Chairman in case of the council of Staff or legislative Council of a State (ii) Chief Justice of India in case of Supreme Court, (iii) Chief Justice of the High Court in the case of the High Court (iv) the President or the Governor, as the case may be, in the case of other authorities established or constituted by or under the Constitution, (v) the administrator appointed under Article 239 of the Constitution. [Right to Information Act, 2005 (22 of 2005) s. 2(e)]Means any authority authorised by the Central Government by notification in the Official Gazette to perform all or any of the functions of the competent authority under this Act. [Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986 (61 of 1986), s. 2 (d)]Means, in relation to the United Kingdom, the CAA, and in relation to any other country the authority respo...
Shop
Shop, a place where thins are kept for sale, usually in small quantities, to the actual consumers. By (English) Shops Act, 1912, s. 19, 'shop' includes any premises where any 'retail trade or business' is carried on; 'retail trade or business' includes the business of a barber or hairdresser, but not the sale of programmes, etc., at places of amusement.A business establishment or place of employment; a factory, office, or other place of business, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1384.The (English) Shops Act, 1934, deals with the employment of persons under eighteen years, repealing s. 2 of the (English) Shops Act, 1912; but the other provisions are unaffected. The 1934 Act, s. 1, provides that no young person (under eighteen) shall be employed for more than the normal maximum working hours, that is, forty-eight hours in any week; it makes restrictions on right employment, has special provisions as to the catering trade, the sale of accessories for Aircraft, motor vehicles and cycle...
Worker
Worker, means a person employed under a contract of service or apprenticeship. [Insecticides Act., 1968 (46 of 1968), s. 3 (r)]It means a person employed, directly or by or through any agency (including a contractor) with or without the knowledge of the principal employer, whether for remuneration or not, in any manufacturing process, or in cleaning any part of the machinery or premises used for a manufacturing process, or in any other kind of work incidental to, or connected with, the manufacturing process, or the subject o the manufacturing process but does not include any member of the armed forces of the Union. [Factories Act, 1948 (63 of 1948), s. 2 (l)]Means a worker in any establishment or employ-ment in respect of which this Act has come into force. [Equal Remuneration Act, 1976 (25 of 1976), s. 2 (i)]Means any person who is employed for wages in any kind of work and who gets his wages directly from the employer but shall not include an apprentice referred to in clause (aa). [A...
Mandate
Mandate [fr. mandatum, Lat.], a judicial command, charge, commission.Also, a bailment of goods, without reward, to be carried from place to place, or to have some act performed about them. The person employing is called in the Civil Law mandans or mandator, and the person employed mandatarius or mandatory. The distinction between a mandate and a deposit is that in the latter the principal object of the parties is the custody of the thing; and the service and labour are merely accessorial. In the former, the labour and service are the principal objects of the parties, and the thing is merely accessorial. Three things are necessary to create a mandate: (1) that there should exist something which should be the subject of the contract, or some act or business to be done; (2) that it should be done gratuitously; (3) that the parties should voluntarily intend to enter into the contract. A mandatary incurs three obligations: (1) to do the act which is the object of the mandate, and with which...
Picketing
Picketing [fr. piquet Fr., a diminutive of pique a pike]. In its legal sense this word means the stationing of men to watch and accost workmen passing between their homes and place of employment in order thereby to induce them to come out on strike, or to remain on strike. Such proceeding is to some extent legalized by the (English) Trade Disputes Act, 1906 (6 Edw. 7, c. 47), s. 2 (1) of which is as follows:-2. (1) It shall be lawful for one or more persons, acting on their own behalf or on behalf of a trade union or of an individual employer or firm in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute, to attend at or near a house or place where a person resides or works or carries on business or happens to be, if they so attend merely for the purpose of peacefully obtaining or communicating informa-tion, or of peacefully persuading any person to work or abstain from working.But the right of picketing is limited to peaceful attendance, and by the (English) Trade Disputes and Trade Union...
Servant
Servant, is a person who, by contract or operation of law, is for a limited period subject to the authority or control of another person in particular trade, business or occupation, A Treatise on the Law of Master and Servant, H.G. Wood, 2nd Edn., 1886, p. 1.Means a person who is employed by another to do work under the control and directions of the employer, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1372....
Stevedore
Stevedore [fr. estivar,Sp., to stow], a person employed to stow a cargo on board a ship. See the (English) Merchant Shipping (Stevedores and Trimmers) Act, 1911.--a stevedore is a mere handler of goods in the maritime movement of commodities, AIR 1965 Ker 239 (240).A person employed in loading and unloading of vessels, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1426.Stevedore, is a workman employed either as an overseer or a labourer in the loading and unloading of the cargoes of merchant vessels, Provident Fund Inspector, Ernakulum v. B. Paul Abro, AIR 1965 Ker 239.Means a person employed to store package and goods in a ship's hold, Kasablal Banerjee v. Calcutta D.L. Board, AIR 1960 Cal 166....
Officer
Officer. See ARMY; NAVY. A contract between the Crown and any of its military or naval officers for services rendered or to be rendered is not enforceable in a Court of law, see Jynaston v. A.G., 49 TLR 300.It means a person commissioned, gazetted or in pay as an officer in the Air Force, and includes--(a) an officer of any Air Force Reserve or the Auxiliary Air Force who is for the time being subject to this Act.(b) in relation to a person subject to this Act when serving under such conditions as may be prescribed, an officer of the regular Army or the Navy. [Air Force Act, 1950, s. 4(xxiii)]It means a president, vice-president, chairperson, vice chair-person, managing director, secretary, manager, member of a board, treasurer, liquidator, an administrator appointed under s. 123 and includes any other person empowered under this Act or the rules or the bye-laws to give directions in regard to the business of a multi-State co-operative society. [Multi-State Co-operative Societies Act, ...
Betting
Betting. For definition and for s. 18 of the (English) Gaming Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 109), see WAGER.Bets are irrecoverable at law by virtue of s. 18 of the (English) Gaming Act, 1845, and the (English) Gaming Act, 1892 (55 & 56 Vict. c. 9). The latter statute gets rid of the decision in Real v. Anderson, (1884) 13 QBD 779; and see Tatam v. Reeve, (1893) 1 QB 44; and De Mattos v. Benjamin, (1894) 70 LT 560. In the case of a cheque given in payment of a gaming transaction the combined effect of s. 1 of the (English) Gaming Act, 1710 (9 Anne, c. 14), and ss. 1 and 2 of the (English) Gaming Act, 1835, was that if it was paid to any indorsee or holder, the amount so paid could be recovered by the drawer from the payee, Dey v. Mayo, (1920) 2 KB 346; Sutters v. Briggs, (1922) 1 AC 1. The Gaming Act, 1922, does away with this position.The (English) Betting Act, 1853 (16 & 17 Vict. c. 119)--as to which see Reg. v. Brown, (1895) 1 QB 119--elaborately provides for suppressing of houses, rooms...
Adult
Adult, means a person who has completed eighteen years of age. [Beedi and Cigar Workers (Conditions of Employment) Act, 1966 (32 of 1966), s. 2 (a)].Means a person who has completed his eighteenth year of age. S. 2(a). Factories Act, 1948 (63 of 1948).Means a person who has completed his eighteenth year of age, s. 2(aa), Minimum Wages Act, 1948 (11 of 1948).Means a person who has completed his eighteenth year, s. 2(a). Cinematograph Act, 1952 (37 of 1952).In relation to management system means systematic assessment of the adequacy of the management system to achieve the purpose set out in the text, carried out by persons who are sufficiently independent of the system to ensure that such assessment is objective, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 21, 4th Edn., Para 810, Note 7, p. 678.Means a person who has completed his eighteenth year of age. [National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005, s. 2(a)]...
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