Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Subs. by Act 22 of 1958, s. 2, for clause (a). 4 (i) in relation to an establishment belonging to, or under the control of, the Central Government or in relation to an establishment connected with a railway company, a major port, a mine or an oilfield or a controlled industry, 1[or in relation to an establishment having departments or branches in more than one State,] the Central Government; and (ii) in relation to any other establishment, the State Government;] 2[(aa) “authorised officer” means the Central Provident Fund Commissioner, Additional Central Provident Fund Commissioner, Deputy Provident Fund Commissioner, Regional Provident Fund Commissioner or such other officer as may be authorised by the Central Government, by notification in the Official Gazette;] (b) “basic wages” means all emoluments which are earned by an employee while on duty or 3[ on leave or on holidays with wages in either case] in accordance with the terms of the contract of employment and which are paid or payable in cash to him, but does not include— (i) the cash value of any food concession; (ii) any dearness allowance (that is to say, all cash payments by whatever name called paid to an employee on account of a rise in the cost of living), house-rent allowance, overtime allowance, bonus commission or any other similar allowance payable to the employee in respect of his employment or of work done in such employment; (iii) any presents made by the employer; (c) “contribution” means a contribution payable in respect of a member under a Scheme 4[or the contribution payable in respect of an employee to whom the Insurance Scheme applies]; (d) “controlled industry” means any industry the control of which by the Union has been declared by a Central Act to be expedient in the public interest; 5[(e) “employer” means— (i) in relation to an establishment which is a factory, the owner or occupier of the factory, including the agent of such owner or occupier, the legal representative of a deceased owner or occupier and, where a person has been named as a manager of the factory under clause (f) of sub-section (1) of section 7 of the Factories Act, 1948 (63 of 1948), the person so named; and (ii) in relation to any other establishment, the person who, or the authority which, has the ultimate control over the affairs of the establishment, and where the said affairs are entrusted to a manager, managing director or managing agent, such manager, managing director or managing agent;] (f) “employee” means any person who is employed for wages in any kind of work, manual or otherwise, in or in connection with the work of 6[an establishment], and who gets his wages directly or indirectly from the employer, 7[and includes any person— (i) employed by or through a contractor in or in connection with the work of the establishment;