Definitions

Section 2 of the Beedi and Cigar Workers (Conditions of Employment) Act, 1966 deals with definitions. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,- (a) "adult" means a person who has completed eighteen years of age;

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,- (a) "adult" means a person who has completed eighteen years of age;

(b) "child" means a person who has not completed fourteen years of age;

(c) "competent authority" means any authority authorised by the State Government by notification in the Official Gazette to perform all or any of the functions of the competent authority under this Act and for such areas as may be specified therein;

(d) "contractor" means a person who, in relation to a manufacturing process, undertakes to produce a given result by executing the work through contract labour or who engages labour for any manufacturing process in a private dwelling house and includes a sub-contractor, agent, munshi, thekedar;

(e) "contract labour" means any person engaged or employed in any premises by or through contractor, with or without the knowledge of the employer, in any manufacturing process;

(f) "employee" means a person employed directly or through any agency, whether for wages or not, in any establishments "[or godown] to do any works skilled, unskilled, manual or clerical, and includes- (i) any labour who is given raw materials by an employer or a contractor for being made into beedi or cigar or both at home (hereinafter referred to in this Act as "home worker"), and (ii) any person not employed by an employer or a contractor but working with the permission of, or under agreement with, the employer or contractor 2[or both];

(g) "employer" means,- (a) in relation to contract labour, the principal employer; and (b) in relation to other labour, the person who has the ultimate control over the affairs of any establishment or who has, by reason of his advancing money, supplying goods or otherwise, a substantial interest in the control of the affairs of any establishment, and includes any other person to whom the affairs of the establishment are entrusted, whether such other person is called the managing agent, manager, superintendent or by any other name; 1. 10th February, 1970, vide notification No.IIE/2-1/70, dated the 9th February, 1970, in respect of section 3, in the State of Orissa.

Section 2, The Beedi and Cigar Workers (Conditions of Employment) Act, 1966 (Act 32 of 1966).