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In this Act, unless there IS anything repugnant in the subject or context- ,.. (I) "Child" means a person who has not com- pletef'l his twelfth year of age ; (2) "Closed" means not open for the service of any customer ; (3) "commercial establishment" means an establishment in which there is conducted th~ business of advertising, commission, forwarding or commercial agency, a department of a factory in which persons are employed in a clerical capacity in any room or place where no manufacturing process is being carried on, 11 clerical department of any indus'.rial or commer- cial undertaking, including one of public transport, an insurq.nce company, joint stock company, broker's office, Qr exchange, or such other establishment or class thereof as the State-!. Government mav, by notifi- cation, declare to be a commercial eslablbhtnent for the purposes of this Act, but does not include a shop or an establishment for public entertainment or amusement ; (4) ''day" means a period of lWe:lty-fJur hours beginning at midnight ; (5) "employer" means a person owning or having charge of the b usiness of a commercial estalJlish- ment or establishment for public entertainment or amusement, and includes an agent or manager of, and any other pernn acting on beh<df of, such person in the general management or control 0f such establishment; (6) t<establishilent for public entertainment or amusement" means a restaurant, eating-house, cafe, cinema, theatre and such other est ,blishment or class thereof as the State~ Government may, by notification, declare to be, for the purposes of this Act, an estalJlish- ment for public entertainment or amusement, b1t does not include a shop or a commercial establishment; (7) "factory" means a fac tory as de ~ ned in, Act XXV of or declared to be a factory under, the Factorie~ A.ct, 1931-. 1934; (8) "Half day" means a period of six consecutive hours between the hours of half past seven o'clock ante meridiem and seven o'clock post meridiem ; --~-------~~··---- -----------