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Minimum wage. The Trade Boards Act, 1909, established for the first time a minimum wage in certain trades. The (English) Coal Mines (Minimum Wage) Act, 1912, made provision for the settlement of minimum rates of wages for workmen employed underground in coal mines. The principle has been extended to many industries during the war and after, and to agriculture by the Corn Production Act,1917 (repealed). See TRADE BOARDS.In relation to any area, means to minimum wage fixed by the State Government under s. 3 of the Minimum Wages Act, 1948 (11 of 1948) for agricultural labourer as applicable in that area [National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 (42 of 2005), s. 2(h)]...
Cost of living index number
Cost of living index number, in relation to employees in any scheduled employment in respect of which minimum rates of wages have been fixed, means the index number ascertained and declared by the competent authority by notification in the Official Gazette to be the cost of living index number applicable to employees in such employment. [Minimum Wages Act, 1948 (11 of 1948), s. 2 (d)]...
Child
Child, means any person below the age of eighteen years and includes any adopted, step or foster child. [Protection of Woman from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 (43 of 2005), s. 2(b)]Child includes a still-born child. [Maternity Benefit Act, 1961 (53 of 1961), s. 3 (b)]Means a person who has not completed fourteen years of age. [Beedi and Cigar Workers (Conditions of Employment) Act, 1966 (52 of 1966), s. 2 (b)]Means a person who has not completed his fifteenth year of age. [Factories Act, 1948 (63 of 1948), s. 2 (c)]Means a person who has not completed his fourteenth year of age. [Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986 (61 of 1986), s. 2 (ii)Means a person who has not completed his fourteenth year of age. [Dangerous Machines (Regulation) Act, 1983 (35 of 1983), s. 3 (a)]Means a person who has not completed his fourteenth year of age. [Minimum Wages Act, 1948 (11 of 1948), s. 2 (bb)]Means a person who has not completed the age of sixteen years. [Immoral Traffic (Prevention) A...
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)]...
Adolescent
Adolescent, means a person who has completed his fourteenth year of age but has not completed his eighteenth year. [Minimum Wages Act, 1948 (11 of 1948), s. 2 (a)]--means a person who has completed his fifteenth year but has not completed his eighteenth year. Motor Transport Workers Act, 1961 (27 of 1961), s. 2(a).--means a person who has completed his fifteenth year of age but has not completed his eighteenth year. S. 2(b), Factories Act, 1948 (63 of 1948).--means a person who has completed his fifteenth year but has not completed his eighteenth year.S. 2(a), Plantations Labour Act, 1951 (69 of 1951)....
Competent authority
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...
Establishment
Establishment, includes a shop, commercial estab-lishment, workshop, farm, residential hotel, restaurant, eating house, theatre or other place of public amusement or entertainment. [Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986, s. 2(iv)]1. The act of establishing, the state or condition of being established, 2. An institution or place of business, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 566.It includes any place where any industry is carried on [and where an establishment consists of different departments or have branches, whether situated in the same place or at different places, all such departments or branches shall be treated as part of that establishment. [Apprentices Act, 1961 (52 of 1961), s. 2(g)]It means a corporation established by or under a Central, Provincial or State Act, or an authority or a body owned or controlled or aided by the government or a local authority or a Government company as defined in s. 617 of the Companies Act 1956 and includes Departments of a Gove...
Oil vanaspati
Oil vanaspati, vanaspati, is essentially an oil al-though it is a different kind of oil than that oil (be it rapeseed oil, cotton-seed oil, ground-nut oil, soya bean oil or any other oil) which forms its basic ingredient. Oil will remain oil if it retains its essential properties and merely because it has been subjected to certain processes would not convert it into a different substance. The word 'oil' is not defined in the Act and therefore, its dictionary meaning may well be pressed into service for interpreting the term 'oil mill'. According to Webster's Third New International Dictionary (1966 Edn.) the word 'oil' has different connotations in different situations but in the context of item 5 aforesaid the meaning to be given to would be: Any of various substances that typically are unctuous viscous combustible liquids or solids easily liquefiable on warming and are not miscible with water but are soluble in ether, naphtha, and often alcohol and other organic solvents, that leave ...
Independent persons
Independent persons, persons in the service or em-ployment of the government are also independent persons, State of Andhra Pradesh v. Narayana Velur Beedi Mfg. Factory, AIR 1973 SC 1307 (1311). (Minimum Wages Act, 1948, s. 9)...
Stone-breaking
Stone-breaking, the word 'stone' as popularly understood in ordinary parlance particularly when is it coupled with the word 'breaking' or 'crushing' would exclude manganese. When we speak of stone-breaking or stone-crushing normally we refer to stone in the sense of 'piece of rock' and that would exclude manganese. Employment in stone-braking or stone-crushing in tis sense would refer to quarry operations...............' (AIR 1960 SC 1068), Labour Inspector (Central) Hyderabad v. Chittapore Stone Crushing Co., AIR 1972 SC 1177 (1180): (1972) 3 SCC 605. (Minimum Wages Act, 1948, Sch. Part I, Item 8]...
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