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Unemployed Workmen Act, 1905 (English) (5 Edw. 7, c. 18). See WORKMEN (UNEMPLOYED)....
Workmen
Workmen, if a person is mainly doing supervisory work, but, incidentally or for a fraction of the time, also does some clerical work, it would have to be held that he is employed in supervisory capacity; and, conversely, if the main work done is of clerical nature, the mere fact that some supervisory duties are also carried out incidentally or as a small fraction of the work done by him will not convert his employment as a clerk into one in supervisory capacity, Ananda Bazar Patrika (P) Ltd. v. The Workmen, (1970) 3 SCC 248.Those earning their livelihood by manual labour.Workmen's Dwellings.-See HOUSING OF THE WORKING CLASSES.As to facilities for small dwellings not exceeding a rateable value of 100l. a year see (English) Settled land Act, 1925, ss. 57, 107 and 117. See LABOURERS' DWELLINGS.Workmen (Unemployed).-The Local Government Act, 1929 (19 Geo.5, c. 17), s. 12, repealed the Unemployed Workmen Act, 1905, which established distress committees, whose functions were to ascertain con...
Near
Near. In the Railway and (English) Canal Traffic Act, 1854, used of railway stations not more than one mile distant from each other; and in the (English) Unemployed Workmen Act,1905, s. 1 (a), by which the Ministry of Health may make orders extending s. 1 to 'boroughs or districts adjoining or near to London,' used without any definition. [S. 40(1)(e), Cr.P.C.]...
National insurance
National insurance. The (English) National Insur-ance Act, 1911 (1 & 2 Geo. 5, c. 55), introduced by Mr. Lloyd George, established a wide system of compulsory state insurance covering both ill-health and unemployment, which is based upon premiums contributed in part by the employer, in part by the employee, and in part by the State. The Act consisted of three parts, the first dealing with National Health Insurance, the second with Unemployment Insurance, and the third contained miscellaneous provisions. This Act remained the basis of National Health Insurance, although the subject of very extensive amendment, until the National Health Insurance Act, 1924, consolidated the law. The law has been consolidated again by the (English) National Health Insurance Act, 1936 (26 Geo. 5, and 1 Edw. 8, c. 32), amends and repeals the whole of the Acts passed in 1920, 1922, 1924 and 1928. The arrangement is as follows:-Part I. Insured Persons and Contributions.Part II. Benefits.Part III. Approved Soc...
Referee
Referee, one to whom anything is referred; an arbitrator. Also, persons to whom are referred questions as to the locus standi of petitioners againstprivate parliamentary Bills. Consult the works of Smethurst or Clifford and Stephens hereon.A type of master appointed by a court to assist with certain proceedings, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., 1284.Panels of referees are appointed to decide technical questions on appeal from depart mental authorities under various statutes, see 8 & 9 Geo. 5, c. 13 (licensing of stations); as to bulls, see that title; on valuation of machinery, see (English) Rating and Valuation Act, 1925 (15 & 16Geo. 5, c. 90), s. 24; also (English) Workmen's Compensation Act, 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 84), and other Acts. Reference committees may be appointed under the (English) Acquisition of Land (Assessment of Compensation) Act, 1929; Landlord and Tenant Act, 1927 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 20), for compensation; and the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, in relation t...
Coal mine
Coal mine, The expression 'no person, other than the Central Government or a government company or a corporation owned, managed or control in India, in any form' is semantically sweeping and is wide in meaning so as to spare no class of coal, including even coking coal, because coking coal is a species of coal, coal itself being the genus. A definition of 'coal mine' in the Coal Mines (Nationalisation) Act, 1973. S. 2(b) of the Act defines coal mine to mean 'a mine in which there exists one or more seams of coal'. It is apparent that even a coking coal mine is a coal mine because the definition is broad, Mahindra Nath Shukla v. State of Bihar, (1980) 3 SCR 595: (1980) 3 SCC 353: AIR 1980 SC 1308 (1311). [Coal Mines (Nationalisa-tion Act (26 of 1973) s. 2 (b)]The (English) Coal Mines Act 1911, (1 & 2 Geo. 5, c. 50), repealing and reenacting, with alterations, a great part of the existing law, and itself amended by the (English) Coal Mines Act, 1914 (4 & 5Geo. 5, c. 22), contains a set o...
Ship
Ship, the carriage of goods by Sea Act, 1925 (26 of 1925). [XXVI of 1925, Sch. Art. 1, Cl. (d)]Ship, means any vessel used for the carriage of goods by sea.A type of vessel used or intended to be used in navigation, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1382.In the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. c. 60), by s. 742, 'includes every description of vessel used in navigation not propelled by oars.' [This definition has been adopted by the Workmen's Compensation Act, 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 34), s. 48(1)]'Foreign-going ship,' by the same s., 'includes every ship employed in trading, or going between some place or places in the United Kingdom, and some place or places situate beyond the following limits: that is to say, the coasts of the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, and the continent of Europe, between the river Elbe and Brest inclusive'; and'Home-trade ship' includes 'every ship employed in trading or going' within the above limits; and'Home-trade pass...
Accident to workman
Accident to workman, compensation for. (English) The Workmen's Compensation Act, 1925, provides s. 1, sub-s. (1), that if in any employment personal injury by accident arising out of and in the course of the employment is caused to a workman, his employer shall be liable to pay compensation.Sub-s. (2), that an accident resulting in death or serious and permanent disablement of a workman shall be deemed to arise out of and in the course of his employment, even if at the time of the accident he was acting in contravention of statutory regulations or of the orders of his employer, if such act was done by him for the purposes of and in connection with his employer's trade or business, see Guest v. Gaston & Co., 1927 (1) KB 1.The word 'accident' must be given its ordinary and popular sense; it has been defined as 'an unlooked for mishap or an untoward event, which is not expected or designed', Fenton v. Thorley & Co., 1903 AC 443. Thus compensation has been recovered in respect of death cau...
Preferential payments
Preferential payments, in bankruptcy, administra-tion of estates of persons dying insolvent, and winding up of a company:-One year's rates and taxes, four months' salaries of clerks up to fifty pounds, and two months' wages of labourers or workmen, up to twenty-five pounds (labourers in husbandry paid partly in a lump sum at the end of the year of hiring to have the whole or proportionate part of that sum). Also sums due under the Workmen's Compensation Acts, the National Insurance Acts (Health and Unemployment and Contributory Pensions). These debts rank equally between them unless the assets are insufficient, in which case they are to abate in equal proportions. By the (English) Bankruptcy Act, 1914 (see s. 34), the preference was extended to apprentices. See the (English) Bankruptcy Act, 1914, s. 33, and the (English) Companies Act, 1929, s. 264, by which these debts are directed to be paid in priority to all others; and by s. 264 (4) (b) of the Companies Act, 1929, these debts are ...
Lay off
Lay off, s. 2(kkk) of Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 defines a lay off. Lay-off may be due to shortage of coal or shortage of power or shortage of raw materials or accumulation of stocks or break-down of machinery or any other reason, Management of Kairbetta Estate v. Rajamanickam, AIR 1960 SC 893: (1960) 3 SCR 371.It means the failure, refusal or inability of employer on account of contingencies mentioned in clause (kkk) of the Industrial Disputes Act, s. 2 to give employment to a workman whose name is borne on the muster rolls of his industrial establishment. It is merely a fact of temporary unemployment of the workman in the work of the industrial establishment. The principles governing the case of lay-off are very akin to those applicable to a suspension case. When lay-off is found justified workmen may not be awarded any wages or compensation, Workmen of M/s. Firestone Tyre & Rubber Co. of India (P) Ltd. v. Firestone Tyre & Rubber Co., AIR 1976 SC 1775: (1976) 3 SCC 819: (1976) 3 S...
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