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Definitions - (1) In this Act, unless, the context otherwise, requires,- (i) ‘affected workman’ means a workman who has worked for a period of ninety days within a period of one hundred and eighty days proceeding the date of closure of a closed industrial establishment; (ii) ‘authority’ means the authority appointed under sub-section (1) of section 23; (iii) ‘appellate authority’ means, the authority appointed under sub-section (2) of section 23; (iv) ‘Board’ means the board constituted under section 42; (v) ‘Closed Industrial Establishment’ means an establishment wherein cessation or suspension of operation by way of lockout or otherwise, other than an authorised closure under section 25-O of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (Central Act 14 of 1947), continues for a period of sixty days, and includes lockout continued despite prohibitory orders: Provided that an industrial establishment in which cessation or suspension of operations take place due to a lockout declared consent on a strike contrary to the provisions of the Industrial Dispute Act, 1947 (Central Act 14 of 1947), shall not be deemed to be a closed industrial establishment for the purposes of this Act; (vi) ‘Contingency Fund’ means the Andhra Pradesh Industrial Workers’ Contingency Fund constituted under section 38; (vii) ‘Craft Union’ means a union registered under the (Central Act XIV of 1947) Trade Unions Act, 1926 but whose activities are restricted to a category of the workmen employed in the industrial establishment; (viii) ‘election authority’ means the election authority appointed under section 7 of this Act; (ix) ‘employer’ means the owner, or person having charge of, or ultimate control over the affairs of an industrial establishment and includes the Director, Manager, Agent or any other person managing the affairs of an industrial establishment; (x) ‘enterprise council’ means a council constituted under section 24, at the level of industrial establishment; (xi) ‘factory council’ means a council constituted under section 24 at the level of the Factory; (xii) ‘Government’ means the State Government of Andhra Pradesh; (xiii) ‘Inspector’ means an Inspector appointed under section 55; (xiv) ‘Establishment or Industrial establishment’ means an establishment; and its one or more units in which an industry as defined in clause (j) of section 2 of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (Central Act 14 of 1947) is carried on; or any other establishment as the Government may, by notification, declare as such, for the purposes of this Act, but does not include those industries to which the Central Government is the appropriate Government under the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (Central Act 14 of 1947); (xv) ‘notification’ means a notification published in the Andhra Pradesh Gazette; and the word ‘notified’ shall be construed accordingly; (xvi) ‘prescribed’ means prescribed by rules made by the Government under this Act; (xvii) ‘recognised union’ means a union which has been recognised under Chapter II of this Act; (xviii) ‘shop council’ means a council constituted under section 24 of this Act at the shop floor level; (xix) ‘union’ means a Trade Union registered under the Trade Unions Act, 1926 (Central Act XVI of 1926); (xx) ‘unit’ means a unit of the industrial establishment as determined under section 5; (xxi) ‘Workman’ means any person including an apprentice employed in any industry to do any manual, unskilled, skilled, technical, operational, clerical or supervisory work for hire or reward, whether the terms of employment be express, or implied, but does not include any such persons: (i) who is subject to the Air Force Act, 1950, or the Army Act, 1950, or the Navy Act, 1957, or (ii) who is employed in the police service or as an officer or employee of a prison; or (iii) who, is employed mainly managerial or administrative capacity; or (vi) who, being employed in a supervisory capacity, draws wages exceeding one thousand six hundred rupees per mensem, or exercises, either by the nature of duties attached to the office, or by reason of the powers vested in him functions mainly of a managerial nature. (2) The words and expressions used but not defined in this Act shall have the same meaning assigned to them in the,- (i) Trade Unions Act, 1926 (Central Act XVI of 1926; (ii) Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (Central Act 14 of 1947). CHAPTER - II RECOGNITION OF UNIONS