Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act : Definitions. Indian Bare Acts :

Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act,1986

Act No : 61

Section : Definitions.

2. Definitions. In this Act, unless the context otherwise
requires,--

(i) "appropriate Government" means, in relation to an
establishment under the control of the Central Government or a
railway administration or a major port or a mine or oilfield, the
Central Government, and in all other cases, the State Government;

(ii) "child" means a person who has not completed his
fourteenth year of age;

(iii) "day" means a period of twenty-four hours beginning at
mid-night;

(iv) "establishment" includes a shop, commercial
establishment, workshop, farm, residential hotel, restaurant,
eating house, theatre or other place of public amusement or
entertainment;

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(v) "family", in relation to an occupier, means the
individual, the wife or husband, as the case may be, of such
individual, and their children, brother or sister of such
individual;

(vi) "occupier", in relation to an establishment or a
workshop, means the person who has the ultimate control over the
affairs of the establishment or workshop;

(vii) "port authority" means any authority administering a
port;

(viii) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under
section 18;

(ix) "week" means a period of seven days beginning at
midnight on Saturday night or such other night as may be approved
in writing for a particular area by the Inspector;

(x) "workshop" means any premises (including the precincts
thereof) wherein any indusrial process is carried on, but does
not include any premises to which the provisions of section 67 of
the Factories Act, 1948 (63 of 1948), for the time being, apply.