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Working journalist, an ex-employee would be a 'working journalist'. It is clear that the definitions of a 'newspaper employee' and a 'working journalist' have to be construed in the light of and subject to the context requiring otherwise, Bennett Coleman and Co. (P) Ltd. v. Punya Priya Das Gupta, AIR 1970 SC 426: (1969) 2 SCC 1: (1970) 1 SCR 181. [Working Journalists and other Newspaper Employees (Conditions of Service and Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1955, s. 2(f)]Working journalist, means a person whose principal avocation is that of a journalist and who is employed as such in, or in relation to, any newspaper establishment, and includes an editor, a leader-writer, news editor, sub-editor, feature-writer, copy tester, reporter, correspondent, cartoonist, news-photographers and proof reader. An editor is expressly included in this definition, Management of Rashtradoot v. Rajasthan Working Journalist Union, (1971) 3 SCC 96. [Working Journalists and other Newspaper Employees (Conditio...
Non-journalist newspaper employee
Non-journalist newspaper employee, means a person employed to do any work in, or in relation to, any newspaper establishment, but does not include any such person who--(i) is a working journalist, or(ii) is employed mainly in a managerial or administrative capacity, or(iii) being employed in a supervisory capacity, performs, either by the nature of the duties attached to his office or by reason of the powers vested in him, functions mainly of a managerial nature. [Working Journalists and Other Newspaper Employees (Conditions of Service) and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1955 (45 of 1955), s. 2 (dd)]...
Newspaper
Newspaper, means any printed periodical work containing public news or comments on public news and includes such other class of printed periodical work as may, from time to time, be notified in this behalf by the Central Government in the Official Gazette. [Working Journalists and Other Newspaper Employees (Conditions of Service) and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1955 (45 of 1955), s. 2 (b)]The essential pre-requisite of a periodical work containing public news or comments on public news, P.S.V. Iyer v. Commissioner of Sales Tax, AIR 1960 Ori 221 (223). (Orissa Sales Tax Act, 1947)Any paper to be classified as a newspaper, would contain a report of recent events, Commissioner of Sales Taxi v. Express Printing Press, AIR 1983 Bom 190 (192). [Bombay Sales Act, (51 of 1959), s. 2(3)][s. 81, Indian Evidence Act]The expression 'newspaper' as defined in the Working Journalists and Other Newspaper Employees (Conditions of Service) and Miscellaneous Provisions Act includes not merely 'public n...
Calligraphists
Calligraphists, to come within the definition of 'Calligraphist' three conditions have to be satisfied by an employee: (1) he must be an Artist; (2) he should perform journalists work; and (3) he should also calligraph matters, Management of Daily Pratap v. Their Katibs (1973) 1 SCR 438: AIR 1972 SC 1872: (1972) 2 SCC 342. [Working Journalists ...... Act (45 of 1955), s. 2(f)]...
Editor and newspaper
Editor and newspaper, have the meanings respectively assigned to them in the Press and Registration of Books Act, 1867 and the expression 'working journalist' has the meaning assigned to it in the Working Journalists and other Newspaper Employees (Conditions of Service) and Miscella-neous Provisions Act, 1955 (45 of 1955). [Press Council Act, 1978 (37 of 1978), s. 2 (e)]...
Katibs
Katibs, are Artists who perform journalistic work and who also calligraph matters, Management of Daily Pratap v. Katibs, AIR 1972 SC 1872 (1878). [Working Journalists Conditions of Service and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1955 s. 2(f)]...
Journalistic
Pertaining to journals journalism or to journalists contained in or characteristic of the public journals as journalistic literature or enterprise...
Avocation
Avocation, it plainly means one's vocation, calling or profession, Express newspapers Ltd. v. B. Somayajulu, AIR 1964 SC 279 (284): (1964) 3 SCR 100. [Working Journalists Industrial Disputes, Act, 1955, s. 2(b)]...
Comments on public news
Comments on public news, 'comments on public news' reports of the judgments of the Courts as well as comments on such judgments mean 'comments on public news', All India Reporter Karamchari Singh v. AIR Ltd., AIR 1988 SC 1325 (1331). [Working Journalists and other Newspaper Employees (Conditions of Service) and Miscellaneous Act, 1955, s. 2(b)]...
Keeper of the Great Seal, Lord
Keeper of the Great Seal, Lord, a judicial officer who used to be appointed in lieu of the Lord Chancellor, 5 Eliz. c. 18. (Working Journalistsand Other Newspaper Employees (Conditions of Service and Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1955)...
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