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Employer

1947 (14 of 1947), s. 2 (g)] Means, in relation to any establishment, factory, mine, oilfield, plantation, port, railway company or shop: (i) belonging to, or under the control of, the Central Government or a State Government

Factory

on but does not include a mine subject to the operation of the Mines Act, 1952 or a railway running shed, B.M. Lakshmanamurthy v. Employees' State Insurance Corporation, AIR 1974 SC 759: (1974) 4 SCC 365: (1974)

Fare

voyage or passage by water; also the money paid for a passage either by land or by water. Railway fares must be published at stations, by the (English) Regulation of Railways Act, 1868 (31 & 32 Vict.

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Ad medium filum vi' (aqu')

v. Newlay Bridge Co., (1886) 33 CD 133, and City of London Land Tax Commissioners v. Central London Railway, 1913 AC 364. The presumption does not apply to a railway that is a boundary, Thompson v. Hickman,

Endorsee

favour the last endorsement is made. [Multimodal Transportation of Goods Act, 1993 (28 of 1993), s. 2 (g); Railways Act, 1989 (24 of 1989), s. 2 (12)] The word 'endorsee' means the person in whose favour an

A person

A person. The word 'a person' in s. 55(1) of the Railways Act must be understood to mean 'consignor', 'consignee', or ' endorsee', Jagjit Cotton Textile Mills v. Chief Commercial

Deviation

Marine Insurance Act, 1906 (6 Edw. 7, c. 41), ss. 45 and 46. (2) In the law of railways, a departure from plan in the construction of the line (cf. Railways Clauses Act, 1845, ss. 11-15)

Full compensation

Full compensation. See s. 16 of the Railways Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 16), Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Railways,' and s. 17 of

Mine

the Rating Act, 1874 (37 & 38 Vict. c. 54), has made all mines rateable. Neither mines under railways [see (English) Railways Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 20), ss. 77-85], nor under waterworks

National insurance

livelihood. (g) Persons in the employment of the Crown, local or public authorities, or in the employment of railway or statutory companies and entitled to benefits from a superannuation fund, if excepted by a certificate issued by

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